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Manifesto Bold
In digitizing this old font, we took great liberties with the design, removing some jarring elements. The result reads much more smoothly than the original, retaining the overall character of the original. Hope you...
Mardi Gras Improved
George Bruce’s New York foundry had a remarkable number of decorative types, most of which were lost or destroyed when the firm was taken over by the American Type Founders Co. and closed down...
Paper Lanterns
At the very least, you’ll need this for the Chinese New Year celebration. This was designed in the year of the monkey, and includes all the usual accents for Western European languages. Caps have...
Penelope
This was originally brought out as a caps-only font, but later the foundry scrounged up a lowercase that wasn’t our idea of a very good match. So we cleaned up the caps and made...
Kitcat
This was a favorite of the old time job printers; decorative but readable. The MacKellar foundry was the largest and most creative of the old foundries, and decorative fonts like this one came out...
Eastlake
Eastlake was a popular furniture style of the period when the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan foundry brought out this font. As with many types, we find it difficult to see the connection between the...
Five Star Final
Introduced by the American Type Founders Co. at the time of the Spanish American War and advertised as suitable for “War Scare Headlines”! Used by many papers for years after because the narrow type...