Claredon is an English slab-serif typeface that was created in England by Robert Besley for the Fann Street Foundry in 1845. It is also considered the first registered typeface, with the original matrices and punches remaining at Stephenson Blake and later residing at the Type Museum, London.
Cenennial Script was originally design by herman Inlenburg in 1876, the Centennial of American Independence, for the Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan Foundry in Philadelphia.
Edison Swirl SG was based on an original Art Nouveau typeface employing superfluous Victorian gingerbread ornamentation for Bauer Type Foundry circa in 1900.
The Bauer Type Foundry, or Bauer'sche Schriftgiesserei, was a prominent German manufacturer of metal type. It was founded in 1837 by Johann Christian Bauer in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company published typefaces by several eminent designers, including Lucian Bernhard, Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Walter Braun, Heinrich Jost, Imre Reiner, Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, Emil Rudolf Weiß, and Heinrich Wienyck.
In 1972 the headquarters in Frankfurt closed, and the rights to the typefaces were transferred to the former subsidiary company Fundición Tipográfica Neufville in Barcelona, which now markets digital versions of many of the typefaces.
Treasury waited over 130 years to be digitized.
Zinc Italian SG was based on the classic Victorian typeface known as Zinco from the MacKellar, Smiths, & Jordan foundry in Philadelphia (USA) circa 1900.MacKellar, Smiths, & Jordan was created in 1885 by William Brasher MacKellar, G. Frederick Jordan, and Carl Friederich Huch. It was the dominant American metal type foundry, and became the main branch in the creation of American Type Founders in 1892.
Isabella was designed by Hermann Ihlenburg in 1892 for the MacKellar, Smiths, & Jordan foundry.
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| Antique design by Bernd Nadall |
Copperplate by John Ayres. |
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