font_designer: Dan Solo

Minsky

Minsky font

The Bruce Foundry in New York gave this Italian Clarendon the catchy name of Ornamented No. 1529. The original had a top right white shadow which we eliminated. Additionally we improved the color of...

Pacifica

Pacifica font

This is really Congo from Barnhart Bros. & Spindler, but we felt it would be improved if we smoothed out some of the curves slightly. Conjures up visions of Pacific Islands and other exotic...

Stamps

Stamps font

We have a penchant for types that connect to form a ribbon or band. Here’s another one, and no amount of words will excuse it.

Mozart

Mozart font

This font was originally called Mozaik. The lowercase postion has a few alternate characters in place of the basic ones.

Berolina

Berolina font

A circa 1900 type from the foundry of W. Grauneau, Berlin. A great utility face as it works well as the “plain” face with other decorative type of the same era. Reads well in...

Europa Text

Europa Text font

This circa 1910 European face was introduced into the United States by a German type foundry traveling salesman during the great depression of the 1930s. We have used it quite successfuly in sizes as...

Fletcher

Fletcher font

A special effect type from the French foundry of Beaudoire & Cie. We changed a couple of characters to improve the overall harmony of the alphabet.

Margie

Margie font

Originally issued as Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry of A.G. Vorm BrĂ¼der Butter. Minor variations were given to a few letters to even the color.

Tally Text

Tally Text font

Tally Text Light is an early photolettering type, sometime in the 1940s, when words were hand assembled from individual film positives of the letters, then re-photographed. We made the bold face version of Tally...

Welcome

Welcome font

This is another of those early 20th century, post art nouveau types from Europe. Probably German.