Mural
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...
font_designer: Dan Solo
Roman Forum
A special effects font that forms headlines reversed on a background. Many different endpieces are furnished.
Spearhead
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.
Master Script
An unusual angular vertical script. In late Victorian times it was seen mostly in advertising work, seldom in social stationery and announcements.
Huntsman
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...
Fairmont
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
Another design inspired by Chinese characters, but with a somewhat less obvious treatment than many.
Moritz
Loosely based on an early 20th century type from the Brussels foundry of Van Loey-Nouri. Many European foundries had fonts of this general design. Schelter & Gieseke of Germany had several.
Riviera
This is derived from the Marder, Luce foundry’s face called Rivet. A nip and a tuck here and there plus the addition of a lowercase make this into a potentially useful font.
Seminary
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...