font_foundry: Solotype

MacKeller, Smiths and Jordan had a font called Giraffe Wide which we liked, but like many Victorian display fonts it had no lowercase. We fixed that!

This is a Vanderburgh and Wells wood type cap font from 1877. We don’t know if the originators made a lowercase for it, but we did. Most effective in larger sizes.

A Barnhart Bros. & Spindler type from the late victorian period. We have been faithful to the spirit of the original buy “calmed down” a few of the lowercase letters to make the lines...

Our font of the original was only ten point, so we had to use our imagination to a great extent. As specialists in Victorian typography, we have found that many people do not like...

Loosely based on an early 20th century type from the Brussels foundry of Van Loey-Nouri. Many European foundries had fonts of this general design. Schelter & Gieseke of Germany had several.

This is derived from the Marder, Luce foundry’s face called Rivet. A nip and a tuck here and there plus the addition of a lowercase make this into a potentially useful font.

Based on one of the earliest Tuscans, from Thorowgood’s foundry. The original was very poorly rendered in 1822, but keep in mind that decorative types were still quite new in the early 1800s. We...

Formalized from some hand lettering by the multifaceted Jugendstil designer Bruno Mauder, perhaps better known for his work in glass and ceramics.

Apparently original with the Lindsay brothers type foundry in New York shortly before they were merged into the American Type Founders Company. A few characters of the original font have been modified slightly to...