font_designer: Dan Solo

Mural

Mural font

Another caps-only font for which we have designed a lowercase. It was originally brought out in smaller sizes for card work, but proved to be so popular that sizes up to 48 point were...

Roman Forum

Roman Forum font

A special effects font that forms headlines reversed on a background. Many different endpieces are furnished.

Spearhead

Spearhead font

Once again we have added a lowercase to a caps-only type from late Victorian times. We made quite a few changes from the original to make words flow better.

Huntsman

Huntsman font

Issued from the Haddon Foundry in England. Most of their original faces had names beginning with H, like their own name. Some of their types were designed by Phil May, but we cannot guarantee...

Master Script

Master Script font

An unusual angular vertical script. In late Victorian times it was seen mostly in advertising work, seldom in social stationery and announcements.

Fairmont

Fairmont font

This is one of the Victorian standards for job printing issued by the Barnhart Brothers and Spindler Foundry about 1891. It looks old without being decorative, a good counterpoint to fancier types in today¹s...

Emperor

Emperor font

Another design inspired by Chinese characters, but with a somewhat less obvious treatment than many.

Seminary

Seminary font

This began life as a European font that was copied in the United States by Bruce’s Type Foundry in 1885. It was caps only and had a fine line “three-D” shadow. We scrapped the...

Tourist

Tourist font

MacKeller, Smiths and Jordan had a font called Giraffe Wide which we liked, but like many Victorian display fonts it had no lowercase. We fixed that!

Tuscan Gothic

Tuscan Gothic font

This is a Vanderburgh and Wells wood type cap font from 1877. We don’t know if the originators made a lowercase for it, but we did. Most effective in larger sizes.