Typography Tuesday
Here are some more typefaces from the Book of American Types published in 1934 by the American Type Founders (ATF). The designs shown here are:
Georgian and Stationers Initials: designers and release dates unknown.
Nubian: designed by Willard T. Sniffin for ATF around 1928.
Keynote: designed by Willard T. Sniffin and released by ATF in 1933.
Comstock: unknown designer, initially released by the Inland Type Foundry in 1902 and acquired by ATF when it bought Inland in 1911.
Raleigh Gothic Condensed: designed by Morris Fuller Benton and released by ATF in 1934.
Cloister: designed by Morris Fuller Benton ca. 1913.
ATF was the predominant producer of metal type in America for the first 50 years of its existence beginning in 1892, producing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time, and remained influential in the industry almost until its closing in the early 1990s. Our copy of Book of American Types is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.
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