English 111

Seagull

Schadow

Designed by Georg Trump in 1938, this typeface was Weber’s answer to Ludwig & Mayer’s Candida.

Romana

The French interest in the revival of suitably edited Oldstyle romans as an alternative to a world of Modern typefaces started in 1846 when Louis Perrin cut the Lyons capitals. About 1860, as ...

Raleigh

Following the death of Carl Dair, David Anderson redrew Dair’s design, Cartier, for Typsettra, where it was renamed Raleigh. Adrian Williams at Fonts added three weights as a display series for ...

Playbill

Robert Harling’s 1938 revival of this nineteenth century form, designed for Stephenson Blake.

Piranesi

An informal script designed for ATF as an italic for his Piranesi by W.T. Sniffin.

Park Avenue

The first of the popular American informal scripts designed by R.E. Smith for ATF in 1933.

P.T. Barnum

One of the original nineteenth century designs, cut at Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in Chicago about 1880, passed on to us through ATF. Unlike most Circus types, the serifs of P.T. Barnum are ...

Orbit-B

A second VGC face, this one by S. Biggenden, borrowing from the structure of MICR figures to lend computer associations to the page.