font_category: Serif
Geis
In 1978 I went to work at Mergenthaler as a letter drawer. Being an inquisitive sort I decided that I should take a stab at this type design ‘stuff’. I drew 25 or 30...
Imperial
Ed Shaar’s Intertype alternative to the Linotype legibility group.
Textype
Developed from Ionic No.5, this type is the first of Chauncey Griffith’s Linotype Legibility series to be designed for general use, although it achieved (and retains) popularity as a newspaper text face in Sweden.
Normande
A French form of Fat Face, derived from the British; matrices survive at Berthold in Berlin.
Telegraph Modern
A text face designed by Walter Tracy at Linotype & Machinery for The Daily Telegraph in 1969; the design brings the crispness of the Modern design to the newspaper page.
Latin Extra Condensed
The American nineteenth century display form as handed down through ATF and the composing machine companies, largely for use in newspaper headlines.
Carmina BT
A personal calligraphic series commissioned by Bitstream from Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Although Carmina BT is a neutral design, optimized for use in digital publishing, Zapf von Hesse’s unique calligraphic spirit is still quite...