Bindlestiff NF Nick's Fonts. Gitfiddler NF Nick's Fonts. Bravado NF Nick's Fonts. Raconteur NF Nick's Fonts. Cressida NF Nick's Fonts.
Examiner NF Nick's Fonts. Glengary NF Nick's Fonts. Quinceanera NF Nick's Fonts. Nerwyn NF Nick's Fonts. Marmorherz NF Nick's Fonts. Chockabloc NF Nick's Fonts. Filibuster NF Nick's Fonts. Waxahachie NF Nick's Fonts. Krebs published Handbuch der Buchdruckerkunst in , a page monster.
Type specimen books started appearing in under the name Benjamin Krebs, Nachfolger successor. An publication identifies this successor as Hartwig Poppelbaum.
Berlingska Stilgjuteri Extinct Swedish foundry based in Lund, at which, e. It existed from until It has offices in London. Babylon Schrift Kontor GmbH, the company of Klaus Bartels, offered type 1 fonts from this collection for sale since , but it disappeared some time later when Bartels died. Not to be confused with Berthold Types Ltd from Chicago, who produced its library from Berthold type 1 data, not Ikarus data, of the same collection.
Some fonts also cover Cyrillic and Greek, but Maltese and Turkish are standard in all typefaces. More research needs to be done about the Berthold bankruptcy in They had a lot of debts. How can two different companies "acquire" or "get" the rights and sources of their collection? Who took care of the debts? Were there some underhanded deals? BERTLib twice refused to send me a list of types to which their own names can be matched. And finally, one has to pay 2. All that makes me think that this company is one of businessmen rather than passionate type designers.
I created this page with remarks on their fonts. Not without controversy, though, as many claim that the original digital collection was an illegal copy of Linotype fonts [Note: I disagree with that statement--take out "illegal"].
In , Bitstream created MyFonts. This was a fantastic buy, as proved by this quote from John Hudson: I have said it before and I will say it again: I think the development of the original Bitstream library was one of the worst instances of piracy in the history of type, and it has set the tone for the disrespect for type shown today.
A bit of background: Bitstream asked Linotype if they could digitize Linotype's library of fonts. Linotype refused, but Bitstream went ahead anyway. On this issue, read these pages by Ulrich Stiehl and Typophile. Bitstream was offering a font CD.
Type Odyssey Font CD Bitstream has added Greek, Cyrillic, OldStyle versions to many of its families. In November , Serious Magic entered into a long-term agreement to license 25 Bitstream outline fonts for its new visual communication products. Bitstream has been an exemplary corporate citizen, occasionally producing license- free fonts for the masses, such as their Vera collection.
Bitstream's own overstated blurb about itself: Bitstream Inc. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet.
Its core competencies include fonts and font technology, browsing technology, and publishing technology. Catalog of typefaces [large web page warning]. Blackfriars Type Type foundry in the early Foundry 20th century in London. Novel Fonts revived Richmond Oldstyle as Valhalla in Bobst Graphic Swiss photo-typesetting company. Commercial fonts: the great subdued calligraphic Turbayne Collection, the Morgan and Morgan Sticks display font, and the stylish Deco font Habana Moon stand out.
I guess all fonts are made by Ignacio Frances. Irene Frances is Ignacio's mother. In the truetype collection, I count at least fonts. There are fonts in their type 1 collection. Many names reappear later under the Softmaker label, dated Many of their fonts can be found on free font sites, and indeed, the collection is in limbo.
It is more synthetic in its structure, more radical, and thus, more modern. It is a contemporary text typeface based on a structure that was created in , not a revival mimicking Greandjean's shapes. In , they released Esquire, an upright script headline face.
Other fonts are listed on my site under the various designers' names. Maxime Buechi now mainly runs a big tattoo parlor in London. Brain Stew Fonts Brainstew flourished around , but has died around Alternate inactive URL.
Some fonts are here. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Brenden C. Weber Stuttgart-based foundry established in , and taken over by D. Stempel in , which in turn became Linotype in the eighties.
Their library included Druckhaus Antiqua , Schadow Antiqua , Weber Fraktur and typefaces by these designers:. Albert Auspurg: Start Julius Kirn: Bison Well, Hans Reichardt says This brush typeface became Brush BT Bitstream. Erich Mollowitz: Forelle and Forelle Auszeichnung , script types.
Willy Schaefer: Neon He cut his first metal typeface in Typefaces include Jenson Old Style No. California Type San Franciscvo-based foundry, est. Cambridge A rip-off outfit. The Cambridge Fontworks rascals left the original names of the fonts Fontworks in the "PostScript" name field of the truetype fonts, so it is easy to see what is what.
In most cases, many of the punctuation symbols were also omitted, so this is a pretty useless collection. At one point, they put old shareware fonts from others on their CD without the owners' permissions, and changed the copyright to "Cambridge Fontworks". Their Poverty 5 was CooperCnd-Heavy, and so forth.
Some fonts are here Atari 1, Deranged. Green Mountain 3 is here. Ashes is here. Naumann is Carl Gustav Naumann, who ran a family printing business in Leipzig. In , he published Schriftproben der Firma C. Sample pages of that book are shown in the link. Poster by Naumann.
CasadyWare, which was founded by Robin Casady in August , began producing Fluent Fonts, which were bitmapped typefaces for the Macintosh. The set of fonts have copyright lines that mention Richard A. As soon as PostScript fonts appeared, CasadyWare got hold of the first version of Fontographer and produced the first downloadable PostScript fonts, even beating Adobe, the originators of PostScript, to the punch.
Ware ,. Many fonts were digitized by Richard Ware, and some were designed by Mike Wright. However, one of its designers, Mike Wright, writes: I believe that all the fonts that were developed by the company are now in the public domain.
The name changed with incorporation to CasadyWare, Inc. I talked him into doing a program that became QuickDEX. Later CasadyWare, Inc. Over the years, my role in management reduced as my interests in other areas developed. About a year ago I removed myself from the Board of Directors. Some fonts can be found at TypOasis. Fontex link.
Font Squirrel link. Scan of some fonts. A final version was released in Many digital versions of this font exist. Iontef's extension and modernization has five styles. Doublet Typefounder and engraver in Paris. Doublet, ca. Scan of an art nouveau face. Fonts created by Elliot Weinstein freeware. There is also a phonetic font. Can't find the fonts any longer. Classic Font Outfit that produced a rip-off collection of about fonts in the mid nineties. Compugraphic Corp. This company existed as Compugraphic and Agfa Compugraphic from The intention was to apply computer technology to typesetting.
The company would go on to influence the world of photocomposing with its low cost typesetters. In , the company relocates to Wilmingon, MA, forms a Type Group and an engineering department, and releases its first typeface, Bodoni.
In , the Headliner machine the first keyboard-operated machine to. The first typeface exclusively developed by Compugraphic, is released, Holland Seminar.
It was created by Hollis Holland in Lyons Press, gives Compugraphic the rights to nearly 2, old and antique typefaces. The new company name is Agfa Corporation. In the late eighties, they proposed the scalable format FAIS as an alternative for type 1 and truetype.
This format did not survive long. In Miles changed name to Bayer Corporation. Agfa is the imaging division of this comnpany. Finally, in Agfa after acquiring Monotype in '97 became independent of Bayer. Noteworthy is the catalog "The TypeBook". Compugraphic collection of fonts with CG in the name. Computer Support Defunct foundry which published a cheap font collection in Their known fonts Corporation are listed here.
This is a renamed collection: Tekton became Tek, and so forth. Typefounders in to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. Doug McMurtie and Frederic Goudy were the vice-presidents in and , respectively.
Despite imports being virtually cut-off during the war years, Continental was still issuing Goudy's types as late as and may have continued functioning even later. Located at E. They published Specimen Book of Continental Types in Cary collected books about printing.
Its collection of 20, volumes is described as one of America's premier libraries on the history and practice of printing. Caslon, Ltd. Bifur , A. Cassandre Joh. Erbar Jakob Erbar R. Stempel A. Curwen Press The Curwen Press founded in by the Reverend John Curwen concentrated on printing music for the tonic sol-fa method, but when his grandson Harold d. In the s, it went under. Typefaces related to Curwen Press:. Colin Kahn designed P22 Curwen in and says: P22 Curwen Poster is a digitized version of a rare wood type used by the Curwen Press in England in the early 20th Century for poster work.
P22 Curwen Maxima is a new hyper- stylized re-interpretation of Curwen Poster. Curwen Sans , Keith Bates. A monoline sans based on an in-house sans of Curwen Press. Custom Headings Chicago-based film type supplier active in the s. One of its types, the curly art International nouveau typeface Fantan, was revived and updated as Fantini in by Patrick Griffin Canada Type.
Shortt Type foundry in the early 20th century in London. Gravure , an engraved old style typeface by them, was digitally revived in by Nick Curtis as Lateral Incised NF Gained a majority share in Klingspor Bros in Drugulin foundry in Gains shareholding in the Haas'sche type foundry in , and Benjamin Krebs in It becomes owner of Klingspor in In D. Stempel's type division was taken over by Linotype, and became Linotype's type department.
Stempel's history, Designers and fonts:. Binder: Binder Style Boehland: Balzac Bohn: Mondial Walter Brudi: Orbis , Pan Buhe: Buhe Fraktur Chappell: Trajanus Christiansen: Christiansen Schrift Heinrichsen: Gotenburg Hoefer: Prima , Zebra Hoffmeister: Amts Antiqua , Stempel Fraktur Holzhausen: Holzhausen Antiqua Jacoby-Boy: Bravour Kausche: Mosaik Koch: Anzeigenschrift Deutsch Meyer: Tannenberg Hans Eduard Meier: Syntax Wilhelm Pischiner: Neuzeit Grotesk Pauser: Petra Reiner: Bazar , Mustang Renner: Renner Antiqua Rhode: Humboldt Fraktur Sallwey: Present Schildbach: Montan Schweimanns: Diana , Propaganda , Graziella , Korso Tschichold: Sabon Wilke: Diskus , Gladiola , Konzept Friedrich Hermann Wobst: Globus Rudolf Wolf: Memphis Zapf-von Hesse: Diotima Antiqua , Smaragd View the Stempel typeface library.
Books by Claire Bolton: DeLittle, the first years in a century of wood letter manufacture, Oxford: Alembic Press, and DeLittle: an English wood-letter manufacturer; including a brief history of the development of wood-type Winchester: Alembic Press, DeLittle ceased operation in Robert James "Jim" DeLittle b.
The Type Museum in London now houses the archives and machinery of the firm. Their fonts include Waterloo, Falstaff, Skrift and Times. Digital Graphic Labs Brenden C. Roemich's Winnipeg-based foundry. Each group has between 50 and typefaces. Catalog of DTC's typefaces. Some fonts can be downloaded for free at Fontspace. He wrote: I started making fonts in and still produce work, although as it became more difficult to upload my work or share it using the University of Michigan FTP server, I haven't released much.
The foundry disappeared. The licensing today is unclear. Old URL. Defunct URL. Page disappeared. Money Money Font. BoldDrink Font. Fredericka the Greatest Regular Font. Smackeroo NF Font. Kontiki Rotten Font. Number of Users: In consideration for the license fee paid, Nick's Fonts grants to you only, the Licensee, the non-exclusive, nontransferable right to use and display the font data.
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