font_designer: Robert Middleton

Mayfair

Mayfair font

The long awaited and much requested revival of Robert Hunter Middleton’s very popular classic is finally here. Mayfair Cursive was an instant hit for Middleton in 1932, and it went on being used widely...

Middleton Brush

Middleton Brush font

One of the earliest fonts published by Canada Type was Coffee Script, Phil Rutter’s digitization of Robert Hunter Middleton’s 1962 brush script, Wave. In 2010, when the font was revisited for an update, it...

Samson Classic SG

Samson Classic SG font

Here is another classic design by Robert Hunter Middleton for the Ludow Foundry in 1940. Samson Classic is a very heavy display face with a wonderful medley of thick-and-thins. Developed just before World War...

Stellar Classic SG

Stellar Classic SG font

Designed by the renowned Robert Hunter Middleton of Chicago’s Ludlow Typograph Company, this “serifless roman” was first introduced in 1929. Middleton has created a transitional face linking the traditional thick and thin serifs of...

Coronet I

Coronet I font

Coronet is a non-joining script font first issued by Ludlow. The capitals have been drawn with a degree of freedom whereas the lowercase are more formal in structure. The ascending lowercase letters of the...