font_foundry: Lanston Type Co.

LTC Forum Title

LTC Forum Title font

Forum Title was originally designed by Frederic Goudy in 1911. It was intended to be the heading font used for a book set in Kennerley. Based on inscriptional Roman stone cut capitals, this face...

LTC Kennerley

LTC Kennerley font

Kennerley Old Style was designed by Goudy for publisher Mitchell Kennerley in 1911. Goudy described it as a “book letter with strong serifs, firm hairlines, and makes a solid, compact page.” One of Goudy’s...

LTC Circled Caps

LTC Circled Caps font

This handy font allows designers of commercial products to add basic circled letters that are uniform in appearance. For example, on music CDs, the Copyright and Publish (AKA Phonogram) symbols often do not match....

LTC Nicolas Cochin

LTC Nicolas Cochin font

Nicolas Cochin (not to be confused with another font named simply “Cochin”) was originally designed by Georges Peignot in the early 20th Century and was based on engraved letters of the 17th Century artist...

LTC Goudy Text

LTC Goudy Text font

Frederic Goudy designed this blackletter face based on Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible. The Lombardic Caps were designed as an accompaniment to Goudy Text and are offered paired with the lower case as an alternate option....

LTC Hess Monoblack

LTC Hess Monoblack font

A very rare metal face made a brief appearance in Lanston Specimen books and has all but vanished from use. In fact no examples of the font in use seem to exist. It shares...

LTC Cloister

LTC Cloister font

Designed by Morris Fuller Benton 1913-15, this Oldstyle family was digitized by Jim Rimmer in the early 2000’s. It is a roman face closely styled to that of Nicholas Jensen’s with a companion italic...

LTC Artscript

LTC Artscript font

Artscript was Sol Hess’s “attempt to convert into rigid metal the graceful penmanship of the ancient scribe”. This type of script is more common in digital from but when originally released in 1948, it...

LTC Christmas Ornaments

LTC Christmas Ornaments font

The Lanston Christmas Ornaments collection has a definite nostalgic feel for classic Christmas and Winter iconography. An indispensable set for the Christmas season, they are perfect for custom card creation or any other winter...

LTC Holly Leaves

LTC Holly Leaves font

LTC Holly Leaves consists of three ornament fonts. Holly Leaves A is a solid color set of holly leaves borders. LTC Holly Leaves B is the same ornaments but with just the leaves and...