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Al Eliott

Canadian type designer from Toronto 1922-1978, active in the phototype era between 1950 and 1985, who made these typefaces:

  • The formal script typeface Balladeer (Headliners, 1975). This typeface was revived by Fontshop as Ballantines Script, by Profonts as Balladeer (2009), by SoftMaker as Ballantines Serial (2010), by Elsner and Flake as Ballantines Script (1974---this date puzzles me...), by Ralph M. Unger as Carla Pro (2013), by Castcraft as OPTI Dianna Script Agency, and by Dan X. Solo as Dianna.
  • The psychedelic Charade. Charade was digitized by URW++ as Charade (2009). Some phototype catalogs show it as Gaston.
  • The proprietary Post Office Cartier (late 1970s). Based on Carl Dair's Cartier.

The Baskerville Canada word mark in Canada's logo was lettered by Al Eliott.

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file name: Profonts Balladeer 2009


file name: Profonts Balladeer 2009a


file name: Soft Maker Ballantines Serial 2010


file name: Veronika Elsner Gunther Flake Ballantines Script E F 1974


file name: Ralph M Unger Carla Pro 2013


file name: Profonts Profonts Charade 2009


file name: Profonts Profonts Charade 2009 poster by Kenji Enos 2018


file name: Profonts Profonts Charade 2009b


file name: Al Elliott 1922 1978







Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html