font_foundry: Hamilton Wood Type Collection

HWT Etta

HWT Etta font

HWT Etta is a fun display typeface that has two styles: East and West! Its two variations ensure you have maximum wood type swagger in every display size that you might want. This fresh...

HWT Aetna

HWT Aetna font

HWT Aetna is a revival of the sturdy Roman style of wood type most often called simply Aetna. This new digital version by Aaron Bell features four widths all based on the various widths...

HWT Archimedes

HWT Archimedes font

Archimedes is a wood type design sometimes known as Mansard. This particular version was brought back to life as a wood type font by Virgin Wood Type. The variation with screw heads in the...

HWT Bernice

HWT Bernice font

HWT Bernice is an ornament font system designed by Marian Bantjes. The basic shapes were designed by Bantjes for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum’s border stamping machine as a contemporary application for this 150...

HWT Brylski

HWT Brylski font

HWT Brylski is a typeface by Nick Sherman, named for retired wood type cutter Norb Brylski and designed to be cut as wood type at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. This font...

HWT Lustig Elements

HWT Lustig Elements font

‘Euclid. A New Type,’ originally designed in the 1930s by modern American designer Alvin Lustig (1915-1955), has been revived as ‘Lustig Elements’ through a collaboration of designers Craig Welsh and Elaine Lustig Cohen. Only...

HWT Mardell

HWT Mardell font

The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum staff is honored to partner with New York-based graphic designer Louise Fili on her first font release project. The new font, “Mardell,” is named for Hamilton retiree...

HWT Konop

HWT Konop font

HWT Konop is a monospaced (fixed-width) typeface that is also square! Designed by Mark Simonson (Proxima Nova) as square characters that can be arranged vertically or horizontally and in any orientation. To a traditional...

HWT Showcard Script

HWT Showcard Script font

Described as “An extended script type that lends itself well to fine fashion, ready-to-wear and all quality merchandise” in a marketing blurb pitching Beaufont by the Morgan Sign Machine Company of Chicago for their...

HWT American Chromatic

HWT American Chromatic font

The HWT American Chromatic set is a multilayered font set that will allow for thousands of possible color and pattern combinations. The original 19th Century Chromatic upon which this font set is based included...