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James West
Born in 1830, this American punchcutter designed fonts for ATF. Bank Script No. 1, 2 and 3 (1895) is a formal script that is now in the Scangraphic collection. Many other 19-th century typefaces are due to him. McGrew writes: Bank Script is a formal, traditional Spencerian script, designed in 1895 for BB&S by James West. It is of medium weight, and seems to have served as a model for the heavier Commercial Script and the lighter Typo Script, which came along later. Like many scripts of the day, it was designed with several lowercase alphabets to be used with the same capitals; of these only the original (No.1) set has endured, some sizes still being shown in the most recent ATF catalog. No. 2 lowercase had a larger x-height than No.1, while No.3 was both higher and wider. His Carpenter is a connected flowing script typeface that was digitized by ICG in 1995 and called Carpenter ICG. The GroupType revival is called Carpenter Script (1993-2006). Image Club Graphics also revived the wide connected script Cariola Script Std (2016). |
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file name: I C G Carpenter I C G 1995
file name: Carpenter
file name: Image Club Cariola Script Std 2016
file name: James West Bank Script 1895
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