Buslingthorpe
What intrigued me about Buslingthorpe was the virtuoso challenge it presented, of designing a typeface that would, despite a ridiculously tiny x-height, still possess a coherent harmony betwen upper and lower case, and read...
font_category: serif
Renslaer
A condensed and stiff-looking typeface with an enormous x-height, Renslaer is meant for use as a display face. It has the feel of some of the 19th century display faces, which often had the...
Carot Text
Carot Text fonts are especially tuned for reading sizes: their serifs have adequate strength and do not cause fatigue when reading long. Originality lies in the tradition revived by modern language. The whole Carot...
Telegraph Modern
A text face designed by Walter Tracy at Linotype & Machinery for The Daily Telegraph in 1969; the design brings the crispness of the Modern design to the newspaper page.
Textype
Developed from Ionic No.5, this type is the first of Chauncey Griffith’s Linotype Legibility series to be designed for general use, although it achieved (and retains) popularity as a newspaper text face in Sweden.
LTC Kennerley
Kennerley Old Style was designed by Goudy for publisher Mitchell Kennerley in 1911. Goudy described it as a “book letter with strong serifs, firm hairlines, and makes a solid, compact page.” One of Goudy’s...
LTC Kaatskill
LTC Kaatskill was made specifically for use in an edition of Rip Van Winkle for the Limited Editions Club. “I feel that Kaatskill owes nothing in its design to any existing face, and the...
LTC Jenson
Jenson Oldstyle was designed by J. W. Phinney of the Dickinson Type Foundry in 1893. Jenson is based on the ‘Golden Type’ designed by William Morris in 1890 for his private press editions under...
LTC Athena
LTC Athena brings a somewhat “lost” hot-metal typeface back from obscurity into digital Opentype format. In fall 2012, printing historian Rich Hopkins contacted P22 type foundry regarding some inked type drawings he had just...
LTC Winchell
Winchell is the only identified typeface designed in Buffalo, NY prior to the formation of P22 type foundry. It was created by Edward Winchell of the Matthews-Northrup Printing Works and released by the Inland...