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Mark Solsburg's outfit located in Westport, CT. Before GroupType, Solsburg worked at ITC, which he left in 1989 to start FontHaus. Later he started TypoBrand and Grosse Pointe Group LLC. Solsburg headed the Type Directors Club for a few years. It seems that the FontHaus collection is now being marketed under the Group Type label at MyFonts. Group Type does technology consultation in the field of providing software and type face fonts for designers, publishers and typographers, related to the selection, purchase and use of design software and type face fonts for use in graphic, industrial, interactive and communications design. They specialize in revivals. Their fonts include - Ronde Script (2012). This ronde comes from the French side. Group ype says that it was modeled after Parisian Ronde by the Chappelle foundry in Paris, but its roots go back to Nicolas Gando.
- Fortis (2012), formerly Atlas. In the wood style of Latin Wide, with heavy sharp triangular serifs.
- Craw Modern (2012). A revival of Craw Modern by Freeman Craw (1958, ATF).
- Arbor Brush (2012). A brush font that seems almosrt painted.
- Carpenter (a 1995 revival of an old connected ATF script by James West).
- Aquiline (an absolutely wonderful 16th century script).
- Bank Gothic (1994, a revival of Morris Fuller Benton's original---see also Bank Gothic BT).
- Aries (a 1995 revival of a lapidary by Eric Gill).
- Bristol (*).
- Schneidler Initials (a 1995 revival of Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler's Trajan-style typeface).
- Raleigh Gothic (a 1995 face based on Morris Fuller Benton's design. See also Raleigh Gothic RR for a different revival).
- Ovidius Script (a medieval simulation script, dated 2006, designed by Thaddeus Szumilas; in Light, Demi and Bold weights).
- Metro Sans (2006, a great Bauhaus style sans family based on William Addison Dwiggins' Metro #2), Grosse Pointe Metro (2009, a similar family).
- Cloister Initials (2006, a revival of an illuminated caps face by Goudy).
- Regular Joe (2006, an out-of-place childish handwriting font).
- Broadway Poster, Cooper Poster.
- Diane Script (*).
- Girder Poster.
- Gotico Black. A blackletter typeface.
- Grotesca (1995).
- Maxim (*) (**).
- Poster Gothic.
- Stradivarius.
- Caslon Antique (1993; based on an original by Bernd Nadall).
- Ann Pomeroy contributed Sitcom, Corvinus Skyline (1991; a revival of a condensed modern family by Imre Reiner by the same name), Spire, Spire Monoline, Spire Extra Light, a condensed didone family heavily based on Sol Hess's Spire (Lanston).
- Andrew Smith contributed his Laughin font, which was earlier at FontHaus.
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