TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Mon Mar 25 15:30:53 EDT 2024

SEARCH THIS SITE:

IMAGE SEARCH:

FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE

LUC DEVROYE


ABOUT







The Fell Types

The Fell type collection was a gift made to Oxford University by a bishop of Oxford, Dr. John Fell (bishop of Oxford), in the late seventeenth century (ca. 1672). He bought punches and matrices in Holland and Germany in 1670 and 1672 and entrusted his personal punchcutter, Peter de Walpergen, with the cut of the larger bodies. Bibliography compiled by Igino Marini, who revived some Fell types in 2004:

  • Stanley Morison: "The roman italic&black letter bequeathed to University of Oxford by Dr. John Fell", Oxford University Press, 1951.
  • Stanley Morison: "John Fell The University Press and the 'Fell' Types", Oxford University Press, 1967.
  • Horace Hart: "Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford, 1693-1794", Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1970 (facsimile edited by Harry Carter from the original of 1900).
  • Harry Carter: "The Fell Types - What has been done in and about them", Oxford University Press, New York, 1968.

EXTERNAL LINKS
The Fell Types
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
History of type ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿








file name: Oxford University Press Fell Roman


file name: Igino Marini The Fell Types 2004 Poster by Rose Acland







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