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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
‘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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by Staff · Published May 1, 2020
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...