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.
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...
Delphin
Introduced by the font foundry C.E. Weber in 1951 and 1955, Delphin was designed by Georg Trump and cut by Egon Graf. Its lower case letters have a handwritten feel which contrasts nicely with...