List of American Type Founders typefaces

American Type Founders was the largest producer of foundry type in the world, not only of in-house designs, but also from designs that came from merged firms. Many of its designs were created or adapted by Morris Fuller Benton, his father Linn, Joseph W. Phinney or Frederic Goudy.

ATF Designs

These foundry types were designed and produced by American Type Founders:

  • Abbott Oldstyle (1901, Phinney)
  • Adscript (1914, Benton)
  • Agency Gothic (1933, Benton)
    • Agency Gothic Open (1934, Benton)
  • Alternate Gothic, Nos. 1,2,3 (1903, Benton)
  • American Backslant (1934, Benton)
  • American Text (1932, Benton)
  • Americana]] (1967, Richard Isbell), this was the last face ever cut by ATF.
  • Announcement Roman + Italic (1918, Benton)
  • Antique Shaded (1914, Benton), cut on a new shading machine invented by Linn Boyd Benton.
  • Bank Gothic series
    • Bank Gothic Light (1930, Benton)
    • Bank Gothic Medium (1932, Benton)
    • Bank Gothic Bold (1932, Benton)
    • Bank Gothic Light Condensed (1933, Benton)
    • Bank Gothic Medium Condensed (1933, Benton)
    • Bank Gothic Bold Condensed (1933, Benton)
  • Baron's Boston News Letter (1904, Goudy), a private face cut for Joseph Baron's financial newsletter, matrices cut by Wiebking
  • Baskerville Roman + Italic (1915, Benton), after the Fry Foundry version.
  • Benton]] (1934, Benton), designed as Cambridge, released as Benton, reïntroduced in 1953 as Whitehall.
  • Bodoni series, first American revival of the faces of Giambattista Bodoni.
    • Bodoni (1909, Benton)
    • Bodoni Italic (1910, Benton)
    • Bodoni Book (1910, Benton)
    • Bodoni Book Italic (1911, Benton)
    • Bodoni Bold + Italic (1911, Benton)
    • Bodoni Bold Shaded (1912, Benton)
    • Bodoni Shaded Initials (1914, Benton)
    • Card Bodoni (1915, Benton)
    • Card Bodoni Bold (1917, Benton)
    • Bodoni Open (1918, Benton)
    • Bodoni Book Expanded (1924, Benton)
    • Ultra Bodoni + italic(1928, Benton)
    • Bodoni Bold Condensed (1933, Benton)
    • Ultra Bodoni Condensed + extra condensed (1933, Benton)
    • Engravers Bodoni (1933, Benton), designed in 1926.
  • Bold Antique (1904, Benton)
    • Bold Antique Condensed (1908/9 ?, Benton)
  • Bologna (1946), also cast by Stephenson Blake.
  • Bookman Series
  • Bradley Text (1895, Phinney), developed from Will H. Bradley's lettering on the Christmas cover of Inland Printer Magazine by either Phinney or Herman Ihlenberg.
  • Broadway (1928, Benton), capital letters only.
    • Broadway Condensed (1929, Benton), capitals + lower-case
  • Bulfinch Oldstyle (1903, Benton), commissioned by the Curtis Publishing Company and prepared by Benton for production from original designs by William Martin Johnson. The “house face” of Ladies’ Home Journal from 1903, offered for general use in 1905.
    • Re-issued as Whittin Black and Whittin Black Condensed (1960, Benton)
  • Bulmer Roman (1926, Benton), based on a face cut by William Martin for the printer William Bulmer in 1790.
    • Bulmer Roman Italic (1927, Benton)
  • Canterbury (1926, Benton)
  • Card Roman (1925, Benton)
  • Caxton Initials (1905, Goudy), font included twenty-six capitals and one leaf ornament only.
  • Century series
    • Century Roman sub-series
      • Century Roman (1894, Linn Boyd Benton)
      • Century Broad Face (c. 1897, Linn Boyd Benton), also known as Century No. 2.
      • Century Expanded (1900, Benton)
      • Century Italic + Century Bold (1905, Benton)
      • Century Bold Condensed (1909, Benton)
      • Century Bold Extended (1910, Benton)
    • Century Oldstyle sub-series
      • Century Oldstyle + italic + bold (1909, Benton)
      • Century Oldstyle Bold Italic (1910, Benton)
      • Century Oldstyle Bold Condensed (1915, Benton)
    • Century Catalog sub-series
      • Century Catalog (1917, Benton)
    • Century Schoolbook sub-series
      • Century Schoolbook (1918, Benton), commissioned by textbook publishers Ginn & Company for maximum legibility.
      • Century Schoolbook Italic (1921, Benton)
      • Century Schoolbook Bold (1923, Benton)
  • Cheltenham series
    • Cheltenham (1903, Bertram Goodhue, Ingalls Kimball, Benton and/or Phinney)
    • Cheltenham Bold (1903, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Bold Condensed (1904, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Bold Italic + Cheltenham Bold Condensed Italic + Cheltenham Wide + Cheltenham Bold Outline (1905, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Bold Extra Condensed + Cheltenham Bold Extended (1906, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Inline + Cheltenham Inline Extra Condensed
    • Cheltenham Inline Extended (1907, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Oldstyle Condensed + Cheltenham Medium (1909, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Medium Italic + Cheltenham Extra Bold (1910, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Bold Shaded + Cheltenham Bold Italic Shaded + Cheltenham Extra Bold Shaded (1912, Benton)
    • Cheltenham Medium Condensed + Cheltenham Medium Expanded (1913, Benton)
  • Chic (1928, Benton)
  • Civilité (1922, Benton), a modern adaptation of Robert Granjon’s face cut in 1557.
  • Clearface series, designed with the help of his father, Linn Boyd Benton.
    • Clearface (1907, Benton)
    • Clearface Bold + Italic (Benton)
    • Clearface Heavy + Italic (Benton)
    • Clearface Italic (Benton)
  • Clearface Gothic (1910, Benton)
  • Cloister series
    • Cloister Old Style (1913, Benton), based on the 1470 Venetian face of Nicolas Jenson.
    • Cloister Italic (1913, Benton), based on the 1501 italic face of Aldus Manutius.
    • Cloister Bold Condensed (1917, Benton)
    • Cloister Initials (1918, Goudy)
    • Cloister Cursive (1922, Benton)
    • Cloister Lightface (1924, Benton)
    • Cloister Lightface Italic (1925, Benton)
    • Cloister Cursive Handtooled (1926, Benton), with Charles H. Becker.
  • Cloister Black (1904, Benton), usually credited to Phinney, but many authorities give full credit to Benton. It is an adaptation of Priory Text, an 1870s version of William Caslon’s Caslon Text of 1734. Lower-case letters are identical with Phinney's erlier Flemish Black.
  • Collier Old Style (1919, Goudy), a private type for Proctor & Collier, a Cincinnati advertising agency, matrices cut by Wiebking.
  • Contact (1944, F. H. Riley)
  • Commercial Script (1908, Benton)
  • Copperplate series A continuation of a series originally cast by Marder, Luse, & Co..
    • Copperplate Gothic Shaded (1912, Benton)
  • Craw Clarendon (1955-60, Freeman Craw)
  • Craw Modern (1958-64, Freeman Craw)
  • Cromwell (1913, Benton), uses capital letters from Benton’s Cloister Old Style.
  • Cushing (1905, Benton), design suggested by J. Stearns Cushing. (Cushing Antique was a Ludlow face.)
  • Della Robbia series
  • Devens Script (1898, Phinney)
  • Dynamic Medium (1930, Benton)
  • Eagle Bold (1934, Benton), a variant of Novel Gothic, designed for the National Recovery Administration, used on their Blue Eagle posters.
  • Elmora (1968)
  • Empire (1937, Benton), no lower-case.
  • Engravers Bold (1902, also cast by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Benton)
  • Engravers Old English (1906, Benton), based upon Caslon Text and designed in association with "Cowan" or perhaps Phinney.
    • Engravers Old English Bold (1910, Benton)
  • Engravers Shaded (1906, Benton)
    • Lithographic Shaded (1914, Benton + W. F. Capitian), a half-shaded version of Engravers Shaded.
  • Engravers Text (1930, Benton)
  • Flemish Black (1902, Phinney)
  • Franklin Gothic series, the patriarch of American sans-serif faces, named for Benjamin Franklin, America’s greatest printer.
    • Franklin Gothic (1903, Benton)
    • Franklin Gothic Condensed + Extra Condensed (1906, Benton)
    • Franklin Gothic Italic (1910, Benton)
    • Franklin Gothic Condensed Shaded (1912, Benton)
  • Freehand (1917, Benton)
  • Gallia (1927, Wadsworth A. Parker), some sources attribute this to Benton.
  • Garamond series, based upon the designs of 16th-century type founder, Claude Garamond.
    • Garamond (1919, Benton), with T.M. Cleland
    • Garamond Bold (1920, Benton)
    • Garamond Italic (1923, Benton), with T.M. Cleland
    • Garamond Open (1931, Benton)
  • Globe Gothic (c. 1900, Benton), a refinement of Taylor Gothic, designed by ATF vice-president Phinney in 1897 for Charles H. Taylor for the exclusive use of the Boston Globe.
    • Globe Gothic Condensed + Extra Condensed + Extended (c. 1900, Benton)
    • Globe Gothic Bold (1907, Benton), credited to Benton, though Goudy claims Phinney commissioned him to do it.
    • Globe Gothic Bold Italic (1908, Benton)
  • Goudy Old Style series
    • Goudy Old Style + Italic (1915, Goudy)
    • Goudy Title (1918, Benton)
    • Goudy Bold Italic + Goudy Catalog (1919, Benton)
    • Goudy Catalog Italic (1922, Benton), sometimes credited to Charles H. Becker or Wadsworth A. Parker by varying authorities.
  • Goudy Handtooled + italic (1922 Wadsworth A. Parker), alternately credited to either Charles H. Becker or Benton.
  • Goudytype (1928, Goudy), designed and cut in 1916, not cast and sold until later.
  • Gravure (1927, Benton)
  • Graybar (1930, Wadsworth A. Parker)
  • Greeting Monotone (1927, Benton)
  • Headline Gothic (1936, Benton), not to be confused with the Ludlow font of the same name.
  • Hobo (1910, Benton)
    • Light Hobo (1915, Benton)
  • Invitation Shaded (1916, Benton)
    • Invitation (1917, Benton)
  • Jenson Series
    • Jenson Oldstyle + italic (1893, Phinney), based on William Morris's Golden Type, matrices cut by John F. Cumming from drawings by Phinney.
    • Jenson Heavyface (1899, Phinney)
    • Jenson Condensed + Bold Condensed (1901, Phinney)
  • Lexington (1926, Wadsworth A. Parker with Clarence P. Hornung)
  • Lightline Gothic (1908, Benton), essentially a News Gothic ultra light.
  • Louvaine series
    • Louvaine (medium) + Italic (1929, Benton)
    • Louvaine Light + Italic
    • Louvaine Bold + Italic
  • Miehle Extra Condensed + Title (1905, Benton)
  • Modernique (1928, Benton)
  • Modernistic (1928, Wadsworth A. Parker)
  • Monotone Gothic (1907, Benton)
  • Motto (1915, Benton)
  • National Old Style (1916, Goudy), quite similar to his Nabisco.
  • News Gothic series
    • News Gothic (1908, Benton)
    • News Gothic Italic (Benton)
    • News Gothic Condensed (Benton)
    • News Gothic Extra Condensed (Benton)
    • News Gothic Extra Condensed Title (Benton)
    • News Gothic Bold (Benton)
    • News Gothic Condensed Bold (Benton)
  • Norwood Roman (1906, Benton), made for J. S. Cushing’s Norwood Press.
  • Novel Gothic (1928, Benton), completed from drawings by ATF matrix cuter Charles H. Becker.
  • Pabst Old Style or Pabst Roman (1902, Goudy), based on hand lettering done by Goudy for advertisements for the Pabst Brewing Company, though commissioned by Schlesinger & Mayer, a Chicago department store. Cast by Goudy with the proviso that the department store would have the exclusive use of the font for a time before it would be offered to the public. These were the first matrices cut by Robert Wiebking for Goudy.
    • Pabst Roman Italic (1903, Goudy)
  • Packard (1913, Benton), based on lettering by Oz Cooper
    • Packard Bold (1916, Benton)
  • Paramount (1929, Benton)
  • Parisian (1928, Benton)
  • Phenix (1935, Benton), originally called Acquitaine.
  • Piranesi series
    • Piranesi Roman, (Willard T. Sniffin)
    • Piranesi Italic (1930, Benton)
    • Piranesi Bold Italic (1931, Benton)
    • Piranesi Bold (1933, Benton)
  • Poster Gothic (1934, Benton), essentially larger sizes (24 pt. +) of Bank Gothic Condensed Medium.
  • Raleigh Gothic (Condensed) (1932, Benton)
  • Rockwell Antique (1931, Benton), an updating of Inland Type Foundry’s Litho Antique, later revised yet again as Stymie Bold.
  • Roycroft (c. 1898, Benton ), inspired by lettering in the Saturday Evening Post and often credited to Lewis Buddy.
  • Rugged Roman (1917, Benton), designed 1909-11, patented in 1915, earliest showing 1917.
  • Satanick (1896, Phinney), based on William Morris's Troy and Chaucer, matrices cut by John F. Cumming from drawings by Phinney.
  • Souvenir (1914, Benton), later Ed Benguiat’s photo-type versions of this type would achieve huge popularity.
  • Schoolbook Oldstyle (1924, Benton)
    • Schoolbook Oldstyle Italic (1928, Benton)
  • Shadow (1934, Benton)
  • Sterling (1917, Benton)
    • Sterling Cursive (1919, Benton)
  • Stymie series , cast up to 288 point, Stymie is believed to be the largest type ever to be cast in regular molds. The “W” alone weighed two pounds!
    • Stymie Bold + Light + Medium + Light Italic + Medium Italic (1931, Benton)
    • Stymie Bold Italic (Benton)
    • Stymie Compressed (1932, Wadsworth A. Parker)
    • Stymie Inline Title (1932, Wadsworth A. Parker)
  • Taylor Gothic (1897, Phinney), capitals only, lower-case based on Central Type Foundry of St. Louis' Quentell. Later re-worked by either Benton or Goudy as Globe Gothic.
  • Thermotype (1931, Benton), with three widths on the same basic design they prefigured the failed Univers by some twenty years.
  • Thompson Quill Script (1953, Tommy Thompson), this was also made available for phototypesetting by Photo Lettering Inc..
  • Touraine Oldstyle Italic (1898, Phinney)
  • Tower (1934, Benton), similar to Stymie Medium Condensed.
  • Typo Roman Shaded (1924, Benton)
    • Typo Roman (1926, Benton)
  • Typo Script + extended (1902, Benton), originally ‘‘Tiffany Script’’.
  • Typo Upright (1905, Benton), originally Tiffany Upright
  • Venetian + Italic (1911, Benton)
    • Venetian Bold (1913, Benton)
  • Wedding Text (1901, Benton)
    • Wedding Text Shaded (1913, Benton)

Barnhart Brothers & Spindler

These foundry types were originally cast by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler:

A sample of Cooper Black.
  • Boul Mich (1927, Oz Cooper)
  • Cooper series
    • Cooper (1918, Oz Cooper) originally Cooper Oldstyle Roman
    • Cooper Italic (1924, Oz Cooper) included swash characters.
  • Cooper Black series
    • Cooper Black + Italic + Hilite (1922, Oz Cooper), this became ATF's second-best-selling type, after Copperplate Gothic.
    • Cooper Black Condensed (1926, Oz Cooper) 20% lighter than the Cooper Black, the designer described it as “condensed but not squeezed.”
    • Cooper Tooled Italic, not designed by Oz Cooper, but was actually a knock-off of a Cooper Italic by a German foundry.
  • Cooper Fullface + Italic (1929, Oz Cooper)
  • Dietz Text (c. 1927, Oz Cooper), from original drawings made by August Dietz.
  • Fifteenth Century (c. 1897, Berne Nadall), later released by ATF as Caslon Antique.
  • Pompeian Cursive (1927, Oz Cooper)

Bruce Type Foundry

These foundry types were originally cast by the Bruce Type Foundry:

Central Type Foundry

These foundry types were originally cast by the Central Type Foundry of Saint Louis:

Dickenson Type Foundry

These foundry types were originally cast by Dickenson Type Foundry:

Inland Type Foundry

These foundry types were originally cast by Inland Type Foundry and sometimes later modified:

Keystone Type Foundry

These foundry types were originally cast by Keystone Type Foundry:

Marder, Luse, & Co.

These foundry types were originally cast by Marder, Luse, & Co.:

H.C. Hansen Type Foundry

These foundry types were originally cast by H.C. Hansen Type Foundry:

Nineteenth Century Faces

These foundry types were cast before the consolidation by unspecified foundries:[4]

References

  1. ↑ "LTC Camelot". MyFonts. LTC. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "LTC Powell". MyFonts. LTC. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ↑ McGrew, Mac, American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, ISBN 0-938768-34-4, p. 25. Other sources, noltably Jaspert, credit this face to BB&S, while McGrew speculates that some of the sizes might actually have been cast from the Bruce Foundry's Italian Condensed #341.
  4. ↑ Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, ISBN 0-87923-333-8, p. 297.
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