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MacKeller, Smiths and Jordan had a font called Giraffe Wide which we liked, but like many Victorian display fonts it had no lowercase. We fixed that!

This is a Vanderburgh and Wells wood type cap font from 1877. We don’t know if the originators made a lowercase for it, but we did. Most effective in larger sizes.

Loosely based on an early 20th century type from the Brussels foundry of Van Loey-Nouri. Many European foundries had fonts of this general design. Schelter & Gieseke of Germany had several.

This is derived from the Marder, Luce foundry’s face called Rivet. A nip and a tuck here and there plus the addition of a lowercase make this into a potentially useful font.

This began life as a European font that was copied in the United States by Bruce’s Type Foundry in 1885. It was caps only and had a fine line “three-D” shadow. We scrapped the...