font_designer: Dan Solo

French Ionic

French Ionic font

This would be a Clarendon if it weren’t for the cute serifs, which set it apart. Reads well in copy blocks.

Hearst Italic

Hearst Italic font

Carl Schraubstadter of the Inland Type Foundry probably had more to do with the design of this italic than he did with the roman. Great for Craftsman Era projects.

Hearst Roman

Hearst Roman font

A product of the Inland Type Foundry, some say stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy. (Goudy was one of those who said it!)

Bamberg

Bamberg font

A compressed wood poster type from the mid-1800s. Certainly handy for excessive copy on a single line.

Fancy Dan

Fancy Dan font

We had a dozen or so letters of this of this, picked up at the flea market in Vienna. The rest came from our imagination.

Fat Face No. 20

Fat Face No. 20 font

This is almost a necessity if you are doing reproductions of mid-19th century posters and playbills.

Benjamin

Benjamin font

Fonts without curved lines were quite popular in Victorian times. We drew this one back in the days of T-squares and triangles, and based it on a type that we felt could stand to...

Bordeaux

Bordeaux font

This font was inspired by the lettering on a shop sign along a very classy shopping street in Bordeaux, France. There were similar styles among mid-nineteenth century types.

Fandango

Fandango font

Curlicues galore on this modern version of a mid-victorian display type. We started with the caps from a type called Cellini, altered them considerably, and added a lowercase.