font_foundry: Linotype
Excelsior
Before designing this font, C.H. Griffith consulted the results of a survey of optometrists regarding optimal legibility. Excelsior was then presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1931 and remains one of the most legible and...
Fairfield
Another personal version of the Transitional roman designed for Griffith by Rudolph Ruzicka.
Engravers LH
Linotype’s Engravers Bold Face—with its wide set, extreme contrast, and sharp serifs—is instantly recognizable as a turn-of-the-century American business typeface. It is based on a typeface designed for the American Type Founders in…
Electra
This is W.A. Dwiggins’ personal version of the Transitional roman, designed for C.H. Griffith at Mergenthaler.
Duc de Berry
Duc de Berry is a part of the 1990 program Type before Gutenberg, which included the work of twelve contemporary font designers and represented styles from across the ages. Linotype offers a package including...
Egyptienne F
Deberny & Peignot’s elegant humanist slabserif designed as a photocomposition textface by Adrian Frutiger in 1956.