font_foundry: Bitstream

OCR-B BT

OCR-B BT font

Adrian Frutiger’s distinguished and successful 1966 design for the European Computer Manufacturers’ Association improving readability of letters for both machines and humans. OCR-B is replacing OCR-A.

Old Dreadful No. 7

Old Dreadful No. 7 font

Old Dreadful No. 7 is truly a unique typeface design. Bitstream’s designers and other employees all contributed individual letterforms to the character set. This typeface is definitely not recommended for long blocks of texts!...

Oranda

Oranda font

Bitstream’s Oranda was designed by the noted Dutch designer Gerard Unger as a custom project for the European printer manufacturer, Océ, in 1986.

Cloister Open Face

Cloister Open Face font

Designed for ATF in 1913, Morris Fuller Benton’s version of Nicholas Jenson’s roman, the best of the Venetians and a model for regularity in color and fit.

Normande

Normande font

A French form of Fat Face, derived from the British; matrices survive at Berthold in Berlin.

Nuptial

Nuptial font

An informal script designed at Intertype for wedding invitations.

Stymie

Stymie font

Morris Fuller Benton’s 1931 design, reworking the model of Memphis for ATF.

Weiss

Weiss font

In this face designed for Bauer in the twenties, Emil Rudolf Weiss used tiny serifs with many inversions and alternative forms to create the mannered texture peculiar to this form.