Rigney
Bill Rigney, an old job printer in my home town, established his shop in 1896, closed it in 1900 to take a steady job, stored the equipment in a large shed, and reopened for...
font_designer: William Page
Minnesota
Another of the “must have” wood types for those doing poster work with an old-time flavor. Very readable, therefore very useful. We did ads for an old western tourist railroad, and used this often....
Bindweed
From an old wood type owned by a San Francisco printer. Wood types were customarily given somewhat generic names (Antique Tuscan) or, more frequently, numbers to identify them. Our clients liked colorful, easily-remembered names...
Gilbey
Although wood types are found throughout the world, most of the decorative one originated in the United States. This one would work well on theatrical playbills, and advertising for tourist railroads, wild west shows...
P22 Woodtype
P22 Wood Type is a set of four fonts based on 19th Century American wooden printing types. Wood Type Regular is a condensed Tuscan styled font with a lower case and international character set....
Gothic Tuscan 9
A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, a very useful design for display, lowercase missing, very narrow, unusual splayed serifs at top and bottom of strokes.
Unique Wood
Wood type maker W. H. Page designed this in 1870. Caps, figures and points only. A great decorative for old-timey poster work.
Clarendon Extended
A revival of one of the popular American Clarendon wooden types of the 19th century.
William Page 506
A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, somewhat condensed, square.
William Page 500
A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, somewhat condensed, square.