Miller&Richard

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Miller&Richard [William Miller] Founded by William Miller in Edinburgh in 1809. The company became Miller&Richard in 1838, and closed in 1952, when the designs became the property of Stephenson Blake. They are best known for innovative type design, including hits such as the Miller&Richard Oldstyle (and its boldface, nowadays called Old Style or Century Oldstyle), and Antique Old Style, or Bookman. Specimen book from 1884. In 1974, Bloomfield Books (Owston Ferry Lincs) published a facsimile of Miller&Richards Typefounders Catalogue for 1873. Scans: Cuban, Grange, Ludgate, Teutonic, Tudor Black. From the 1912 catalog: Grotesque No4, Grotesque No4 Italic, Grotesque No7, Grotesque No7. Scans: Grotesque Capiutals, Old Style Antique No. 7, Old Style Italic, Sans Serif No. 7. Nick Curtis offers a few digitizations: his Millrich Moravian NF (2010) revives Bohemian (1918, a jugendstil face). Millrich Grange NF (2015) revives Grange. Millrich Reading NF (2010, Victorian) revives a 1918 Miller&Richard typeface (by the same name, I presume). Millrich Olivian NF (2014) revives Olivian. Habana Sweets NF (2012) is a Victorian typeface modeled on Cuban (1873). Canada Type too started digitizing some families: King Tut (2011, Kevin Allan King) is a restoration and expansion of the original Egyptian Expanded (1850). Wood Type Revival Matt Braun) revived the arts and crafts typeface teutonic (1909) as WTR Roycroft (2015).	EXTERNAL LINKS Miller&Richard [Buy fonts] [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type in Scotland ⦿ Foundries of the 19th century ⦿ Art Nouveau typefaces ⦿ Victorian typefaces ⦿ Extinct 20th century foundries ⦿ Nick Curtis ⦿ Arts and Crafts Movement ⦿