font_foundry: Bitstream

Matt Antique

Matt Antique font

A solid calligraphic letter designed by John Matt in the middle 1960s. The typeface did not see use until Compugraphic copied a set of the sketches in the late 1970s, naming the result Garth...

Impuls

Impuls font

A vigorous brush design by Paul Zimmermann for Wagner in 1954.

Flemish Script

Flemish Script font

An ornate roundhand with looped ascenders and strongly flourished capitals prepared at Photon for their phototypesetters about 1960.

Fraktur

Fraktur font

The standard German Fraktur textface of the last century, principally used today for mathematical setting.

Embassy

Embassy font

The English roundhand has always occupied the central position in the group of faces appropriate to the social printing handled by engravers, and their contemporary imitators, thermographers. At the end of the nineteenth century...

Engravers’ Old English BT

Engravers’ Old English BT font

Designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1907; an improved version of the familiar nineteenth century blackletter as he had executed it in his Wedding Text.