font_foundry: Hamilton Wood Type Collection

HWT Slab

HWT Slab font

These two extra bold fonts are classic slab serif wood type styles with one detail of difference. Columbian is an extra bold Clarendon wood type that was manufactured by many of the wood type...

HWT Geometric

HWT Geometric font

This late 19th century design conjures up early 20th century Dutch DeStijl lettering with a mostly strict adherence to right angles and minimal stroke modulation. Geometric began its life as a metal typeface from...

HWT Tuscan Extended

HWT Tuscan Extended font

Tuscan wood types cover a fairly wide range of styles, and there is sometimes confusion over what is classified as a Gothic Tuscan and what is considered an Antique Tuscan. HWT American Chromatic and...

HWT Van Lanen

HWT Van Lanen font

In 2002 Matthew Carter was commissioned to create a new design to be cut in wood by the then nascent Hamilton Wood Type Museum. This was significant in that this was the one format...

HWT Gothic Round

HWT Gothic Round font

Gothic Round was first introduced as wood type by the George Nesbitt Co. in 1838. The font is a softened variation of a standard heavy Gothic typeface. The style evokes a much more recent...

HWT Artz

HWT Artz font

HWT Artz is the newest wood type to be cut at Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. It was designed by venerable type designer Erik Spiekermann exclusively for his own print studio (P98a in...

HWT Roman Extended Fatface

HWT Roman Extended Fatface font

The design of the first “Fat Face” is credited to Robert Thorne just after 1800 in England. It is considered to be the first type style designed specifically for display or jobbing, rather than...

HWT Bulletin Script Two

HWT Bulletin Script Two font

Bulletin Script was a style offered by several American wood type manufacturers in the late 19th Century. It may actually be one of the most iconic styles of the late 1960 Psychedelic era when...

HWT Bernice

HWT Bernice font

HWT Bernice is an ornament font system designed by Marian Bantjes. The basic shapes were designed by Bantjes for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum’s border stamping machine as a contemporary application for this 150...

HWT Lustig Elements

HWT Lustig Elements font

‘Euclid. A New Type,’ originally designed in the 1930s by modern American designer Alvin Lustig (1915-1955), has been revived as ‘Lustig Elements’ through a collaboration of designers Craig Welsh and Elaine Lustig Cohen. Only...