font_foundry: Solotype

An unusual angular vertical script. In late Victorian times it was seen mostly in advertising work, seldom in social stationery and announcements.

Another caps-only font for which we have designed a lowercase. It was originally brought out in smaller sizes for card work, but proved to be so popular that sizes up to 48 point were...

Another design inspired by Chinese characters, but with a somewhat less obvious treatment than many.

This is one of the Victorian standards for job printing issued by the Barnhart Brothers and Spindler Foundry about 1891. It looks old without being decorative, a good counterpoint to fancier types in today¹s...

This began life as a European font that was copied in the United States by Bruce’s Type Foundry in 1885. It was caps only and had a fine line “three-D” shadow. We scrapped the...

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...