font_foundry: Solotype

Berolina

Berolina font

A circa 1900 type from the foundry of W. Grauneau, Berlin. A great utility face as it works well as the “plain” face with other decorative type of the same era. Reads well in...

Europa Text

Europa Text font

This circa 1910 European face was introduced into the United States by a German type foundry traveling salesman during the great depression of the 1930s. We have used it quite successfuly in sizes as...

Mozart

Mozart font

This font was originally called Mozaik. The lowercase postion has a few alternate characters in place of the basic ones.

Welcome

Welcome font

This is another of those early 20th century, post art nouveau types from Europe. Probably German.

Hearst Italic

Hearst Italic font

Carl Schraubstadter of the Inland Type Foundry probably had more to do with the design of this italic than he did with the roman. Great for Craftsman Era projects.

Hearst Roman

Hearst Roman font

A product of the Inland Type Foundry, some say stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy. (Goudy was one of those who said it!)

Margie

Margie font

Originally issued as Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry of A.G. Vorm Brüder Butter. Minor variations were given to a few letters to even the color.

Tally Text

Tally Text font

Tally Text Light is an early photolettering type, sometime in the 1940s, when words were hand assembled from individual film positives of the letters, then re-photographed. We made the bold face version of Tally...

Fancy Dan

Fancy Dan font

We had a dozen or so letters of this of this, picked up at the flea market in Vienna. The rest came from our imagination.

Fat Face No. 20

Fat Face No. 20 font

This is almost a necessity if you are doing reproductions of mid-19th century posters and playbills.