Caslon FB
Our familiar Caslon Bold headletters were invented around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States and were only loosely based on William Caslon’s romans. The best of the Caslon Bolds originated...
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Californian FB
In 1938, Goudy designed California Oldstyle, his most distinguished type, for University of Calif. Press. In 1958, Lanston issued it as Californian. Carol Twombly digitized the roman 30 years later for California; David Berlow...
Cafeteria
The irregularities normally found in script can enliven sanserif letterforms. In Cafeteria, Tobias Frere-Jones took special care to balance activity with legibility on the paper napkin that served as his sketchpad, drawing a freeform...
Brok
Brok appeared in 1925 as powerful characters in a magnificent portrait poster cut in wood by Chris Lebeau for the Willem Brok Gallery in Hilversum, Holland. Brok works its figure-ground magic when negative leading...
Bradley Initials
Designed by Will Bradley as “Bradley Ultra Modern Initials,” these spectacular Art Deco capitals appear for the first time in the nineteen thirty-four ATF specimen. The original design was limited to the twenty-six capitals...
Bodoni FB
Working at American Type Founders from a Bruce Foundry recutting, Morris Fuller Benton worked out the dramatics of the English Fat Face, and in 1928 produced Ultra Bodoni, a headline spectacular. Using Benton’s 1933...