font_designer: Dan Solo

This is another of those early 20th century, post art nouveau types from Europe. Probably German.

A product of the Inland Type Foundry, some say stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy. (Goudy was one of those who said it!)

Originally issued as Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry of A.G. Vorm Brüder Butter. Minor variations were given to a few letters to even the color.

Tally Text Light is an early photolettering type, sometime in the 1940s, when words were hand assembled from individual film positives of the letters, then re-photographed. We made the bold face version of Tally...

Carl Schraubstadter of the Inland Type Foundry probably had more to do with the design of this italic than he did with the roman. Great for Craftsman Era projects.

We had a dozen or so letters of this of this, picked up at the flea market in Vienna. The rest came from our imagination.

This is almost a necessity if you are doing reproductions of mid-19th century posters and playbills.

This would be a Clarendon if it weren’t for the cute serifs, which set it apart. Reads well in copy blocks.

A compressed wood poster type from the mid-1800s. Certainly handy for excessive copy on a single line.