Fairfield
Another personal version of the Transitional roman designed for Griffith by Rudolph Ruzicka.
font_foundry: Linotype
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.
Didot
The typeface family known as Didot was designed by Firmin Didot in Paris in 1783. The Didot types defined the characteristics of the modern (or Didone) roman type style, with their substantial stems flowing...
Diotima
Diotima was designed by Gudrun Zapf von Hesse in 1948, the italic even earlier, in 1939. Diotima is a festive font particularly well-suited to invitations, programs and poems. The delicate italic draws attention to...