font_foundry: Solotype

Bindweed

Bindweed font

From an old wood type owned by a San Francisco printer. Wood types were customarily given somewhat generic names (Antique Tuscan) or, more frequently, numbers to identify them. Our clients liked colorful, easily-remembered names...

Brevet

Brevet font

Authentic copy of the original, with a couple of minor changes to the caps, making them fit better. Although made for the American market by an American typefounder, we found this font in a...

Gladiate

Gladiate font

This was a favorite of job printers in late Victorian times. They used it on cards and stationery, as well as small handbills. It was made in a range of sizes from 10 point...

Acantha

Acantha font

Originally made in seven sizes, 6 to 48 point. Our font was digitized from the 24 point which we found in 1947 in a Sparks, Nevada, newspaper shop. Typical of the late nineteenth century...

Assay

Assay font

This is our name for Antique Tuscan, of which there were many variations. This font came from a large lot purchased around 1970 from an east coast newspaper shop. Subsequently, we acquired several more...

Baraboo Banner

Baraboo Banner font

This was put together by Dan X. Solo to provide a quick way to set headings for a circus brochure. The name was given in recognition of the Baraboo Circus Museum. The end pieces...

Mardi Gras Improved

Mardi Gras Improved font

George Bruce’s New York foundry had a remarkable number of decorative types, most of which were lost or destroyed when the firm was taken over by the American Type Founders Co. and closed down...

Paper Lanterns

Paper Lanterns font

At the very least, you’ll need this for the Chinese New Year celebration. This was designed in the year of the monkey, and includes all the usual accents for Western European languages. Caps have...

Penelope

Penelope font

This was originally brought out as a caps-only font, but later the foundry scrounged up a lowercase that wasn’t our idea of a very good match. So we cleaned up the caps and made...

Square Dance

Square Dance font

Animated types like this one have been around for fifty or more years. They certainly add a sense of liveliness to a headline. This one trades upon the “wrong way weights” of the old...