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Group Type [Mark Solsburg]

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. He is presently located in Ann Arbor, MI. He is President / CEO of DsgnHaus (1989-present), and partner in TypoBrand LLC (2004-present), a specialized typographic consulting firm founded by type designer, Mark van Bronkhorst; former type designer for Adobe, Linnea Lundquist, and Mark Solsburg. 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 typeface fonts for designers, publishers and typographers, related to the selection, purchase and use of design software and type typeface fonts for use in graphic, industrial, interactive and communications design. They specialize in revivals. Their fonts include

• Aquiline. An absolutely wonderful 16th century script.
• Arbor Brush (2012). A brush font that seems almost painted.
• Aries. A 1995 revival of a lapidary typeface by Eric Gill.
• Bank Gothic (1994). A revival of Morris Fuller Benton's original---see also Bank Gothic BT. Now also Bank Gothic Distressed.
• Bristol (1994). In Adornado and Solid substyles. Based on a design by Stevens Shanks.
• Broadway Poster.
• Carpenter Script (1995). Revival of an old connected ATF script by James West.
• Caslon Antique (1993). Based on an original by Bernd Nadall.
• Cloister Initials (2006). A revival of an illuminated caps typeface by Goudy.
• Cooper Poster.
• Corvinus Skyline (1991). By Ann Pomeroy. A revival of a condensed modern family by Imre Reiner by the same name.
• Craw Modern (2012). A revival of Craw Modern by Freeman Craw (1958, ATF).
• Diane Script.
• Fortis (2012), formerly Atlas. In the wood style of Latin Wide, with heavy sharp triangular serifs.
• Girder Poster.
• Gotico Black. A blackletter.
• Grosse Pointe Metro (2006-2009). A great Bauhaus style sans family based on William Addison Dwiggins' Metro #2). See also Detroit Metro.
• Grotesca (1995).
• Laughin. Andrew Smith contributed his Laughin, which was earlier at FontHaus.
• Maxim.
• Ovidius Script. A medieval simulation script, dated 2006, designed by Thaddeus Szumilas. Comis in Light, Medium and Bold.
• Poster Gothic.
• Raleigh Gothic (1995). A typeface based on Morris Fuller Benton's design. See also Raleigh Gothic RR for a different revival.
• Regular Joe (2006). An out-of-place childish handwriting font.
• 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.
• Schneidler Initials (1995). Revival of Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler's Trajan-style typeface.
• Sitcom. Ann Pomeroy contributed Sitcom.
• Spire. By Ann Pomeroy. A condensed didone family heavily based on Sol Hess's Spire (Lanston).
• Stradivarius.

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