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Paul Davy

Aka Pilaster Davy, b. 1964. UK-based designer of Whitby Brewers (2015: inspired by the hand lettering on a reverse glass painted Victorian advertising mirror, found in the Beck Isle Museum in Pickering, North Yorkshire), Castle Press No 1 (2015, after original wood type from Castle Press, est. 1860), Medhurst (2015, a high-contrast display typeface), Providence (2015, tattoo typeface), Allegheny (2015, a spurred typeface), York Whiteletter (2015, white-on-black ribbon font inspired by a Delittle design called Eboracum No3 Improved White Letter Type and late 18th century woodtype), Spartanburg (2015, inspired by the 1923 Sanborn Insurance Map cover for Spartanburg, South Carolina; a tattoo typeface) and Galveston (2015, a tattoo typeface): GalvestonTX is derived from a Sanborn Insurance Map cover published in 1912 for the city of Galveston, Texas.

In 2015, he also created Eboracum (based on a wood type from a 1972 wood type sample book by Delittle found at the Castle Press), Catle Press No 2 (a condensed gothic font, after original wood type from Castle Press, est. 1860), Philadelphian Gothic (a revival of a 19th century type called Philadelphia Lining Gothic), Archaic 1897 (a revival of a Victorian typeface from ATF), Metropolian (a revival of Metropolis (1897, American Type Founders)), Austin Nichols (Victorian: inspired by the hand lettering from an Austin, Nichols & Company advertising cover), and Hex (a hexagonal typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: York Baile Hill, The Novice (blackletter), LF Clipped (fifties script: a faithful revival of Clipper by Louis Ferrand, Fonderie Typo. Française, 1952), Queens Square (inspired by a 1911 Sanborn map cover).

Typefaces from 2017: Crepitus (monogram font).

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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