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Cognac

Cognac font

Many years ago, we bought a bunch of proofs that had apparently come from the defunct Van Loey-Nouri foundry in Belgium. Cognac was an incomplete alphabet among them, which we completed. Just a guess,...

Ozymandias NF

Ozymandias NF font

One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Suitable for any occasion, Ozymandias is a caps and small caps font, available in solid and outline...

Ouachita Way NF

Ouachita Way NF font

One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Ouachita Way is an ultrabold and boxy caps and small caps font, especially well-suited for commadning headlines....

Mrs Bathhurst

Mrs Bathhurst font

One in the series of fonts celebrating the halcyon days of handlettering. Mrs. Bathhurst is based on an alphabet from 1916, prepared by Fred G. Cooper. Warm, endearing, and a little quirky, Mrs. B...

Magic Lantern

Magic Lantern font

One in the series of fonts celebrating the Halcyon Days of Handlettering. Magic Lantern is a caps and small caps font based on an untitled design by Samuel Welo, whose Studio Handbook for Artists...

Jefferson Pilot NF

Jefferson Pilot NF font

One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Jefferson Pilot’s unusual letter treatment isn’t for every project, but for projects that need a great “old-timey”...

Cleopatra

Cleopatra font

Here’s a great old face from the H. W. Caslon foundry in London; a real workhorse. The lowercase is eminently readable, so you can set entire paragraphs to good effect. We don’t recommend it...

Cathedral

Cathedral font

This font was designed as an experiment in simplfying the Blackletter. We never showed it in the Solotype catalog, so it didn’t get much use.

Brussels

Brussels font

The Stephenson Blake foundry in England, made two fonts, Flemish Expanded and Flemish Condensed. In our view, one was too wide, the other too narrow; so we redrew it and renamed it Brussels. Why...

Brevet

Brevet font

Authentic copy of the original, with a couple of minor changes to the caps, making them fit better. Although made for the American market by an American typefounder, we found this font in a...