The Type We Use

We have a menagerie of type at our disposal to complete almost any order. This numerous amount of type includes condensed faces, such as Onyx, to script faces, such as Typo Upright, and much much more.

Typo Upright

Typo Upright, designed in 1905 by Morris Fuller Benton, is a script typeface that is a reproduction and revision of the French Ronde typeface. Typo Upright made quite a name for itself as it was popularized by American Type Founders, a number of type foundries merged together under one name.

Engravers' Old English

Engravers' Old English is regarded as a blackletter typeface, "Old English" being synonymous with "blackletter". Blackletter typefaces originated in late 12th century Europe as a way to produce texts faster. However, blackletter typefaces were not used on the letterpress from the start; they started as an alternative calligraphic script to the previous dominant script known as Carolingian: of which was quite laborious to produce in a large scale manner, hence, why blackletter script came to fruition.       

Parsons

Parsons was designed in 1917 by Will Ransom while at Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. Parsons proved exceedingly popular and as such it was used by many designers. However, Ransom thought that the numerous designers used Parsons in poor taste. This led Ransom to stop designing and producing typefaces. Although, there were many different versions of Parsons, such as Parsons Swash Initials by Sydney Gaunt.  

Kennerley Old Style

Kennerley Old Style was designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1911 under the Lanston Type Company. Kennerley Old Style is a typeface with serifs as strong as its originality as it was not based off of any types preceding its time.  

Lydian

Lydian is a typeface designed by Warren Chappell in 1938 for one of the most prominent and famous type foundries at the time, American Type Founders. Lydian is regarded as a sans-serif font with a calligraphic style strewn throughout its design.

Civilité

Originally designed by French engraver Robert Granjon in 1557, Civilité is a typeface based off of freehand writing. Civilité was invented so that children could read texts in writing that resembled that of the hand, in turn hopefully increasing the penmanship of said texts readers. Granjon, himself, only printed around 20 books with Civilité, a few other French printers also had a similar typeface and would print with said typefaces from time to time. This mildly successful typeface was used sporadically up until the late 19th century in which most mass production use ceased.     

Cloister Bold Italic

Cloister Bold Italic was designed by Morris Fuller Benton as a serif font that is based off of what is now regarded as the "old style" of serif fonts. Morris Fuller Benton, working under American Type Founders, designed Cloister itself in 1913. Cloister had numerous variants in weight, and size, such as the variant we have in our shop, a tactic used by American Type Founders to ensure its versatility in the very selective letterpress market.

Washington Text

Washington Text is quite an obscure text designed by Dieter Steffmann. Washington Text is a blackletter font, however not much is known, or written, about its inception due to its obscurity.

Fabritius

Fabritius is a blackletter typeface designed by Fabritius and Sønner in Oslo, Norway. Even though it is quite an elegant typeface with a strong parallel structure of design, its use is rarely ever seen today.

Huxley Vertical

A fine, modest font, Huxley Vertical was first designed by Walter Huxley in 1935. Huxley Vertical was used in the heading of Prince's first studio album, For You, and later in a poster for a trio of bands' concerts on a tour: Modest Mouse, 764-Hero, and The Minus 5.

Samson Uncial

Samson Uncial was designed by Victor Hammer and cut by the son of Rudolf Koch, Paul Koch, in 1926; Samson Uncial is a script typeface with its design being based off of a font that predates the 8th century. Uncial itself was mostly used to write the Greek, Latin, and Gothic alphabet.    

Jessen Schrift

Jessen Schrift was designed from 1924 to 1930 by none other than the legendary Rudolf Koch. Koch had been toying with the idea of making a Bible Gothic typeface for a long time, however his first execution of said style, Neuland, was as one would expect: not nearly as refined. Koch's second go at the Bible Gothic style, just one year later, produced the renowned and exquisite Jessen Schrift. The name of this out of the box typeface was an homage to a large supporter of the printing world in the late 1800s, Peter Jessen. 

Goudy Thirty

Goudy Thirty is interesting in the sense that the original designer never actually released this typeface. Instead, the company that he worked under, Lanston Monotype, released the font in 1953, 8 years after the original designer, Frederic W. Goudy, had passed. With this Lanston Monotype decided to name his final typeface Goudy Thirty, with "Thirty" being a newspaper term for "end of story".