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Edward Everett Winchell

Art director of the Matthews-Northrup Printing Works in Buffalo, New York and designer of Winchell. McGrew writes: [Winchell was] introduced by Inland Type Foundry in 1903 as especially adapted for use in fine catalog and booklet printing, as well as for commercial stationery, where something out of the ordinary is demanded. It is a bold, thick-and-thin display face, but more like a nineteenth-century design, with some characters seeming to be poorly proportioned or having awkward shapes. These faults are less noticeable in Condensed Winchell, introduced by Inland the following year, but patented by William Schraubstadter in 1905. Neither is a distinguished typeface by later standards. Compare John Hancock, Bold Antique.

In 2009, Richard Kegler made a digital typeface Winchell that is free for those who become members of the WNY Book Arts Center in Buffalo. He writes: Winchell is the only identified typeface designed in Buffalo, NY prior to the formation of P22 type foundry. It was created by Edward E. Winchell of the Matthews-Northrup Printing Works and released by the Inland Type Foundry in 1903. The Winchell typeface was also made in Wood by the Hamilton Manufacturing company in the mid 20th Century. The Winchell typeface is a Clarendon styled slab serif that clearly has distinctive pre-modernist sensibilities. In 2015, P22 Winchell became available for purchase.

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