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Rotterdam-based typefounder, b. 1754, d. Oldenbarneveld, NY, 1828. He published Proeven van Letteren die Gevonden Worden in de van Ouds Beroemde Lettergieterye van Wylen de Heeren Voskens en Clerk, Nu van A. G. Mappa (Rotterdam, 1781). I cite from that link: "In 1780, the father of Adam Gerard Mappa bought a large part of the Amsterdam typefounding firm of Voskens&Clerk, and Mappa soon discovered that he had talent for typefounding. He began his own business in Rotterdam where he issued this specimen book, but moved to Delft a few years later. There he become embroiled in the Patriot movement and led a volunteer regiment in the unsuccessful revolution of 1787. He was banished from Delft, spent a few years in France, and in 1789, emigrated to America with his typefoundry on the advice of the Ambassador to France Thomas Jefferson. Mappa set up his new business in New York. According to a contemporary letter, and supported by the type in this specimen, his foundry contained not only "the Western, but the Oriental languages at the value of at least [pound sign] 3,500 New York currency." There was not much call for type in exotic languages, and while Isaiah Thomas considered his Dutch and German type "handsome," his "roman were but ordinary." Mappa was not skilled enough to produce the type needed by the new nation, and the foundry was advertised for sale on 1 February 1794. At least some of Mappa's equipment was acquired by Binny&Ronaldson, although their business did not start until 1 November 1796. This specimen book came to them with Mappa's typefounding equipment." Harvard's Houghton Library has a copy of the 1781 publication which contains a handwritten note by Theo L. de Vinne (which I was not allowed to photograph by Harvard's fascist librarians). So here is what this letter says: "Dirk Voskens was a typefounder of Amsterdam, a coster of types, not a cutter of punches. In 1677 he bought the foundry of Bleau and it was kept by his heirs and successors, (1) Dirk Voskens (2) Weduwe van Dirk Voskens (3) Voskens&fils (4) Voskens + [illegible]. In 1780 the foundry was sued for 8974 francs. P[illegible] were J. Enschedé and Sons, Ploos van Amstel, Preiter, Posthmans, DeBruyn and deGroot. How Mappa acquired possession does not appear. [...] Mappa got into trouble and had to take refuge in New York, where he began business as a type founder. He did not succeed. It is not known which became of the material he had in New York." To this, Bullen added by hand: "It was purchased by Binny&Ronaldson". P.M. Kernkamp kindly sent me additional information on Mappa. He points out that Mappa was typefounder in these cities: Rotterdam (1780-1782), Delft (1782-1787), New York (1789-1792). The 1780 date is also put into question because Mappa's father died in 1779. Mappa was active in a small army of patriots in Holland, and after a defeat in 1787 against Prussia, he was banned from Holland for six years. It may explain his emigration to America in 1789. He lived in New York until 1792, then in Second River, NJ, until 1794 and finally in Oldenbarneveld (Oneida Co., NY). His foundry, then in Albany, NY, was sold in 1803 for 1200 guilders. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guttenberg, NJ-based creator of a few fun typographic posters based on quotes from the main characters in the show Mad Men. I especially like Remember Don, when God closes a door, he opens a dress (2011) and I'm not a solution to your problems. I'm another problem (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexander Walter
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Alexander Walter Handwriting
| Alexander Walter (Middletwon, NJ) makes your custom handwriting font for $99. The fonts and/or signatures are slightly randomized. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Alfredo Gravato
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Alison Argento
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In 1892, twenty-three type foundries joined together to compete with the new typesetting machine, the Linotype [and later, the Monotype], to form ATF, which consolidated its type manufacturing facilities in a new plant in Jersey City in 1903. They were the dominant foundry in America until 1933, when ATF went bankrupt. Its collection remains intact at the American Type Founders Company Library&Museum at Columbia University in New York. The Smithsonian possesses most of the original type drawings and many of the matrices, and a number of other institutions and private individuals own matrices. Interestingly, despite the bankruptcy, it continued in operation until 1993, when the Elizabeth, NJ plant was finally liquidated. It was Kingsley's bankruptcy in 1993 that forced the final closure of ATF. In the early part of the 20th century, ATF was the dominant American foundry. Their specimen books are classics:
A brief history of ATF by Carol Van Houten. Reference books. View the digital typefaces that are based (fully, or in part) on ATF's typefaces. See also here, here, and here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Angie lives in Garfield, NJ, and sells her handwriting fonts Nooks and Coppy for 50 USD each. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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New Jersey-based designer (b. 1990) of the scratchy handwriting font Ionkno (2007) and of Jaggy Fries (2007, outline French frie-shaped glyphs). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Had Art's windsurfing dingbats and his own handwriting font. Link died. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artsy Lady's Home Page
| Betty Cook (b. 1952) is the "Artsy Lady", a New Jersey designer who created ALBabyNewYearAH, ALCinderella (calligraphic caps), ALConscienceAH, ALCrossStitchHearts, ALPlaceSettingsDings (2001), ALPlaceSettingsLetters, ALPrincessJasmine, ALPrincessSnowWhite, ALSnowmen, BabyGeniuses, BabyGeniuses2Normal, CruiseLine, Dreidl (2000, art nouveau), KittyKatLove, LeprechaunHats, Patriot, PilgrimHats, Polywog, Tramp, Untitled2. Mostly alphadings. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In 1881, he patented a fireworks-themed typeface, and another typeface with ornaments. In 1880, he patented another font with Chinese ornaments. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer who grep up in sewell, NJ, and graduated in 2007 from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. He created the modular face Knucklepuck (2009). Noupe link where one can download an EPS version of this font. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BA Graphics
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The complete list: ITC Aftershock, Alexandra Script (a formal script), Allure, Alons Antique, Alons Classic, Angular, Animated Gothic, Barnboard, Bedrock, Bodoni Roma (1993), Cabernet Sauvignon (2007, a take on Didot---I can't believe BA Graphics trademarked this name!), Cafe Aroma, California Sans, Calafragalistic (1992), Caslon Manuscript (1992), Champ Ultra (1995, Western billboard font), Chunky Monkey, Cookie Dough, Crackers, Crescent, Down Under, Elegante, Elephant Bells, Ellington Manor, Equate (1993), Extreme (chalk writing, 1996), Felicity Script, Flix, Freaky Friday Extreme, French Vanilla, Galactic, Geo (2000), Granny Smith, Gusto Black, Headline Gothic, High Intensity, Island Sans, Italian Didot, Kresson Black, Linear Gothic, Lorraine Script, Mardi Gras, Mega (1993, a fat mini-spurred didone), Milano, Nightmare, ITC Outback, Pecos, Ravenwood, Red Dawg, Relaxed Fit, Richmond Hill, Road Gothic (1996), Robertson, Senegal, ITC Serengetti, Shazam, Sign Gothic Bold Condensed, Slam Dunk, Sleepy Hollow, Swank Gothic, Title Gothic Light, Torino Modern, Triumph Gothic, Vinchenso Regular, Wackado, Yakety Yak (1994), Zany, ITC Ziggy, Zipty Do, Queen of Hearts (1991, script), Steel Magnolias (1995, blackletter family), Steeplechase (1992, wild West saloon font), Waimea (1992, poster font), Black Rising (2006, a black military style face), Summer Nights (1993, script), Sugar Shack (1995, curly script), Beaches and Cream (1996, a sans turned into a connected script), Jr High (1994, sports lettering). Alonso Flair with its flared pants (2008) and Squat (2011, a stunted black wood style face) were started by Alonso, but finished after his death by John Bomparte, who wrote this obituary: Throughout his career at the legendary Photo-Lettering, Inc. (one that spanned four decades), Bob created original typefaces and tailored type by modifying, revising and filling out families, fashioning pieces of type for hand-lettered jobs, as well as being involved with the updating of a number of well-known logotypes. Bob was blessed with natural teaching abilities; and those in social and professional circles who had the good fortune to know him considered him not just a type designer but a mentor and a friend. As one such person close to him put it, he was a "graphic technician... back when computers were not even in site for graphic arts, he would take on any intricate&complex graphic project that others would shy away from and come up with a solution that achieved a masterpiece. I'll always remember someone saying 'this can't be done' and Bob saying let me see it and a short time later, there it was --done&perfect. I would like to think that attitude rubbed off on me. Along with this gift for teaching and explaining the complex, Bob exhibited a level of professionalism that was unsurpassed. A number of years ago when the need came to make the transition from the traditional to digital way of creating fonts, he rose to the challenge admirably. Towards the last few years of Photo-Lettering, Bob played a vital role in the conversion to digital, of many of the typefaces within the collection, notably those fonts that carry the prefix PL. More recently, Bob Alonso released several fonts through ITC, Adobe and his independent foundry, BA Graphics. Bob was on the cutting edge of his best work, and in the circumstance of his untimely passing, left a measure of unfinished designs. However, the spirit of his typographic talents and his fine sense of humor lives on through the many much-loved, and popular fonts he has left us: fonts such as Cookie Dough, Equate, Elephant Bells and Pink Mouse, to name a few. The final font listing at MyFonts: ITC Aftershock, Alex, Alexandra Script, Allure, Alons Antique, Alons Classic, Alonso Flair, Angular, Animated Gothic, Bad Boy, Barnboard, Bedrock, Bodoni Roma, Brawn, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cafe Aroma, Calafragalistic, California Sans, Cedar Key, CEO Roman, Champ Ultra, Chardonnay, Chicken Feet, Chicken Soup, Chunky Monkey, Clearmont, Coffee Black, Cookie Dough, Crescent, Deco Inline, Deep Rising (2006, constructivist), Down Under, Elegante, Elephant Bells, Ellington Manor, Equate, Extreme, Fashion Didot, Felicity Script, Flix, Fraggle, Freaky Friday Extreme, French Vanilla, Galactic, Geo, Grandeur, Granny Smith, Gusto Black, Hatari, Headline Gothic, High Intensity, Island Sans, Italian Didot, Jr High, Ka Boink, Ker Pow, Key West, Klingon, Kresson Black, Linear Gothic, Lorraine Script, Malibu Heights, Manchester, Mardi Gras, Mega, Metro Gothic, Milano (2004, a didone face), Mission Hills, National Gothic, Nightmare, Oh Sweet Pea, ITC Out of the Fridge, ITC Outback, Paladium Gothic, PC Gothic, Pecos, Pink Mouse, Queen Of Hearts, Radiance Brush, Rancho Grande, Range Gothic, Ravenwood, Relaxed Fit, Road Gothic, Robertson, Rust Bucket, S&L Gothic, Sahara Bodoni, Senegal, Serendipity, ITC Serengetti, Shadow Gothic, Shangrala, Shazam, Shore Bodoni, Sign Gothic Bold Condensed, Slam Dunk, Sleepy Hollow, Sleezy, Snaggle, Snip Tuck, South Beach, Spice, Steel Magnolias, Steeplechase, Summer Nights, Swank Gothic, Tequila, Thats Amore, Title Gothic Light, Triple Condensed Gothic, Triumph Gothic, Vinchenso Regular, Wackado, Waimea, Wall Street Gothic, Wonka (1996, named after Willy Wonka), Yakety Yak, Zany, ITC Ziggy, Zipty Do. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Bob Alonso's typefaces. View the BA Graphics typeface collection. The BA Graphics typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Barry Schwartz
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Betty Cook
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Graphic designer from Glen Ridge, NJ. Creator of several fonts in 2012, including Arrow and Ants (dot matrix). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Monmouth University in 2010, Casey Finn (New Jersey) designed the free font Wishbone. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Edison, NJ, 1993. Designer of this handwriting face (2006). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cerulean Stimuli
| Kevin Pease runs Cerulean Stimuli in Collingswood, NJ. He created the typefaces Cerulean (2003) and Cerulean Black (2005). Check also his pixel family Fourmat (2004) and the very original card game-inspired Pokeresque (2006). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Charles Creesy
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New Jersey-based designer who created the tree branch-theme face Drone On (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Jersey-based designer (b. 1990) who designed Calamity (2008, an elegant display face), Christine's Handwriting (2006) and Pixie (2008, pixel face, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Bloomfield, NJ, who created the graffiti face Vandal (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Newark, NJ-based creator of the art deco typeface Abstract Modern (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in New Jersey, and managed by Georges H. Guirguis. They made the following Coptic fonts, ca. 1999: AvvaBishoyNormal, AvvaKyrillosNormal, AvvaMarcosNormal, AvvaMarkosNormal, AvvaShenoudaNormal, SaintAbrahamNormal, SaintGeorgesNormal, SaintMarinaNormal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Craig Eliason
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Crud Factory
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Links: Another URL. Dafont link. OFL link. Font Squirrel link. Googlecode link. Devian tart link. The League of Moveable Type. Abstract Fonts link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. |
Cruz Fonts
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Daiji Shikama
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Dale Guild Type Foundry
| Run by Theo Rehak from Howell, NJ: The Dale Guild Type Foundry has been cutting and casting true foundry-cast types, ornaments, borders and initials since 1993. We use foundry alloy made from virgin metals in Barth foundry casters obtained from American Type Founders Co. at their closing. All 16 machines along with two Benton Engraving Machines have been rebuilt and are meticulously maintained. We cast types from 6-24 points, and 72 point initials. We strive to maintain ATF's standards of production in our artwork, engraving and casting. We have made a serious attempt at reproducing Johann Gutenberg's B-42 types. In the summer& fall 2001, we will be cutting&casting Frederick Warde's original ARRIGHI, with the Vicenza variant characters. Various accented letters are also being cut. We have already cut and cast the seldom seen suite of ornaments designed by Bruce Rogers for the Arrighi font. Rehak was trained at ATF and purchased a portion of ATF when it went bankrupt in 1993. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dana Bobana is from New Jersey. In 2010, she made the handwriting font Yourfont available for free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This New York printer, was the first to produce wood type commercially, in 1827, after having invented the lateral router with David Bruce. Saxe says that the preferred woods were maple, pear, and cherry, and to a lesser extent boxwood, mahogany, and holly. Maple won out by 1850. His first specimen book (1828) now resides at Columbia University. Wells, the inventor, was born in Johnstown, NY, in 1800, and died in Paterson, NJ, in 1875. His company was first called D. Wells&Co., but becomes Wells&Webb in 1839 when Wells forms a partnership with E.R. Webb, who had earlier that year bought the company of Leavenworth and Debow from George Bruce. In 1854, Wells sells his partnership to Webb, and so we have E.R. Webb&Co. Webb dies in 1864, and the company reverts to Heber Wells, the youngest son of Darius Wells, Alexander Vanderburgh and Henry Low---it is now Vanderburgh, Wells&Co. Hever Wells buys out the others, and the company becomes just Heber Wells. This last company was absorbed by Hamilton in 1898. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Saddle Brook, NJ, Darnell Roberts created the straight-edged typeface Running With Scissors (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dear Alison
| Travel writer based in Cherry Hill, NJ. Designer (b. Augusta, ME, 1977) of the children's scribble font Urly Lurnin (2008), and of Smiley (2008, comic book face), and of the informal handwriting fonts Pickled Sans (2008), Slim Pickens (2008), Smokehouse (2008) and Gladly Mailed (2008). Bender Script (2008) is a brush script developed from an incomplete script drawn by Charles Chas Bluemlein. Barnstormer Script (2010) is a sign painter typeface. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Deleterious Design
| Born in Dayton, OH, in 1991, Frederick Awich founded the Deleterious Design foundry in North Brunswick, New Jersey, in 2010. His first fonts were Infringe (display sans) and UndercoverLovahh (handprinted face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Design 23
| Design23 is a multi-disciplinary design studio in Morristown, New Jersey, started ca. 2012 by Jennifer de Angelis Gunn. Creations from 2012: Wed Dings, Wed Dings City, the white on black tiled typeface Inthabox, Esther (art deco typeface), Nagi Tanka Regular (poster face). Creations in 2013: Harper (a sketched all caps face), Gunn (a beveled typeface), Homsley (a Tuscan typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Diane DiPiazza
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Dinc Type
| Commercial and free fonts designed by Diane DiPiazza, who lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was the original bass player for The Misfits. She is now in Lodi, NJ. Dinc closed its doors in January 2006 but returned some time later in 2006. Most of the fonts evoke the fifties. Wikipedia states: Diane DiPiazza was the first bass player for the The Misfits, although she does not appear on any album. She left the band, vacating the spot that was quickly filled by Jerry Only. Her name is often incorrectly spelled Diane DiPiaza. Growing up in Lodi, New Jersey, she was a friend of Glenn Danzig, the founder of the Misfits. The first lineup consisted of Glenn on vocals and electric piano, Diane on bass guitar, Jimmy Battle on guitar and Manny Martínez on drums. On the Cough/Cool single, The Misfits first release, she is the Diane who Glenn thanks on the sleeve. Diane DiPiazza is an artist. She is a type designer who distributes free fonts and vintage black and white line art at dinc! She is art director at mystifyinglyGLADdesign, who designs for the web, clothing, and packaging. She designs hand screened gig posters and many other forms of rock 'n roll art, retro art, modern art. A collector of vintage design elements, her style has been called retro/modern. Diane also creates custom hand stamped silver jewelry as well as a line of tattoo inspired pieces. She is in the process of recording a demo LP with the working title Last Year's Fab Rave, on which she plays all the instruments, including bass. Free fonts include Bobo, Dilettante, Modern-Love, Note-To-Self, Plastic-U, Post-No-Bills, Road-Crew, Saturdays-Girl, Sleeptalk, Sugaree, Mod Guitars, Woof Squared, Hatcheck, Mess Kit, Billy Dolls, Knitwits, Claim to Fame, Girlfriend, Book of Joe, Joybuzzer (2007, rough outline), Autos (2007, old typewriter), U Better, The Con, Claim to Fame, Girlfriend, Book of Joe, Ahmet. In 2006, she created Road Crew (2006, rough stencil), DINC (2006, blackletter), Post No Bills (2006, stencil), Ashtrays&Art. Typefaces from 2005: Neat Neat Neat, Shut Up, Hello Hey Joe, Wings For wheels, Trustmaker, Bad To Me, BellBottomBlues, DinkyToy, Funkhouse, Rodeoboy, SaturdaysGirl, SoWhat, Blue Monday, Betcha By Golly Wow, Nathaniel (2005, blackletter), Brillo Blue, Doctor My Eye, Guilt For Dreaming, Rhyming Bells, Bob's Your Uncle, Princess Jasmine, 45, Seven, 7-7000, Ahmet, Alexei, Boxer, Cinema Aisles, Divine Intervention, Synchronicity, Tangled Up In Blue, Tjinder, Untrue, Special Edition 6, 20,000 Roads, Big Diamonds, Charly Baltimore, Dream, Fever In The Funkhouse, Green&Blue, Ring Ring, Swoop Swoop. Typefaces from 2004: Fuzzbox (2004; not to be confused with Bragagna's pre-2004 font by the same name), Ace In The Hole, Balls, The Christmas Font, Beau Geste, ByeBye, Heart, Loverboy, Sycophant, The Comedians, Fishboy, Truth, King Me, Snapper, Blue Heaven, Oceans Eleven, Fresh Fish Seven, Trason, Your Type, Da Doo Ron Ron, Big Flirt, Dicky Dee, Boxtop, Satellites, Upsmack, Starry, Silicon Chip, Howdy, Grandpa Boy, Scarlet Letter, Capsule, Doggy, Little Eden, Frank Mills, Chewtoy, Jez, OneWitU, BrineShrimp, Joe College (2004, pixel face), stj-fro, One Inch Rock (2004, pixel face), Black Hole, Ya Ya Baby, Blondie, ShaLaLa, Lower Eastside, GeeWhiz, Sixteen, Joe Strummer, Amy Johnson, JoJo, JodiGirl, Zelda, Hipster, LaDolceVita, LittleLove, Mod, MrEarl, Noveltease, QBats, Ranger, Rhymes, BarkingDog, BFBigmouth, BooHoo, Chance, CowardSquared, Cupid, DincCorona, FiftyFive, FunkyBut, Gamble, HelloHello, IdiotWind, JimmyCap, Luck, Metropolitan, MidnightKiss, Mine (2004, letters in hearts), PerfectCouple, Resolution, Spitball, StencilMeIn, TypeToyNight, YrChickens. Typefaces designed in 2003: 11592003, 2004, BrokenPromise, DincCorona, DoublyBlessed, EchoPark, FiftyFive, Fishing, FunkyBut, HelloHello, Hoboken, InstantKarma, Integrity, KaseyMac, MidnightKiss, PeppermintLump, Resolution, StencilMeIn, ThreeCubicFeet, TypeToyNight, Crybaby, DeepDark, MajorLift, Mikes, MinorFall, Beeper, Kate, Blacktop, Def Caroline, EZ Bake, JoJo, Kima, Bait, Dreamgirl, Sugar Daddy, Friday, Birth of the True, Soul Deep, Virginia Plain, Feelin' Groovy, Sunday SF, Socks, Boy Toy and Sweet Potato, FunnyValentine, Laura, LonelyFrog, Pati, BrokenDoll, Placemats, Satori, Scout, ThousandLies, ThousandOceans, GetTheeGone, Promises, Rudeboy, YuppieFraud. Typefaces designed in 2002: Emmanuel, Strummer, Teardrops, Busterboy, Evergreen, Blulite, Respect, Pretty Baby, Hickory Wind, Chelsea Boys, Femme Fatale, Tour de Lance, Peppermint Lump, Ce La Luna! Nous, El Goodo (2002, pixel font), Big Boy, Farfallena, Life On Mars, Saturn Return, GeeWhiz, Train in Vain, Massive Blur, Lonely Planet Boy, Littlebits, Secretarial Pool, Eight Bits, Firefly, Fluff, Startone, Cupcake, Diet Dr. Creep, Dr. Creep, messaround, Pencilbox, Crush No 47, Crush No 49, and Dialtone. Mac and PC. Plus Starry F. Hope (1997) at Chank's site. Commercial fonts: Booboy, Ingigo (2001, script font), Rufus (2001: four pixel/bitmap fonts), Chinese Symbols: Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Boxtop Fontset, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Lovelight, Moonlight, Sunlight, YaYa, Alvin, Amplifier, BigBeatBold, BigBox, Bit-Thing, Boxboy, Chatterbox, Chinatown (oriental simulation), Chopsticks, Console, Cup O'Joe, dincBATS, dincINK, Dinette, DincINK (1998), Dixie, Dreamboat, Duojet, Esquire, Fireball, Flashlight, FourWay, Geebot, gomer, goober, Highball, Homework, jacks, Jetage, Jetage Hi-Fi, Jetage Lo-Fi, Kingbats, Light Series, Loverboy, Moondog, Mister Lee, Mr. Big Stuff, PaperTiger, Pipeline, Popstar, Pushpop, Recordhop, Rocketship, Roundup, Rubberduck, Satellite, Scripto, SquareBox, SquareCircle, Speedometer, Starlite, Sugar, Swizzle, Thinman, transistor, TwinTone, Ultramatic, Variable Videobox, W. Square, Wash&Wear, Whatnot, Winky, Yin Yang, Tight Toy Night, Funtime, OCRDINC01, 02 (OCR-like fonts), Whirlwind, Gaslight, Love, Captain, Funtime, FiFi, Fakebook, FlameJob, OCRDINC, Tight Toy Night, Swingbats, Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, YaYa, Boxtop Fontset, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Moonlight, Sunlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Hotrod, Iceberg, Gutterball, Homewrecker, Bubba, Starry Night, Lady Luck, Automobile, Hydromatic, Seventeen, Whirlwind, Gaslight, Love, Captain, Swingbats, FiFi, Flamejob, Fakebook, Madness, Apple Scruffs, Marmalade, Queen of Corona, Cupcake, Starry Eyes, Juice, Fivebits (2002, pixel font), Matchbox, Hot Burrito #3, Fishsticks, Eightbits (pixel font), FoolsGold, Drive, Sleepwalk, Icecube, Pruneface, Witness 2HB, Zerogirl (stencil font, 2002), Fairytale of New York, Levi Stubb's Tears, AllModCons, Babylon, BigBoy, ChampsElysees, ConcreteandClay, ElGoodo, Farfallena, Heroes&Villains, LifeOnMars, LittleRamona, MerseyBeat, MetalGuru, Missile, OnYourBike, Pinup, Reconnez, SaturdaysGirl, SaturnReturn, ShepherdsBush, Tatum, TiniestDancer, TumbinDice, VeraGemini, YesterMe, Rising, Treason, Monami Vrai, Robot Girl, Tattooed Sailor, Sunrise, Midnight, Kakadu, Ana, Ace, Yobbo (2002, dot matrix font), GoGo (2002, pixel font), Waltzing Matilda, Memorial Day 911, Good Riddance, Boys, One Tin Soldier, One After 909, Joey , Infidelities. Some of her fonts can be bought at SnapFonts. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
DP Fonts
| DP Fonts (est. 2010) sells fonts created by two New York college friends, Jennifer DeAngelis and Amanda Pastenkos. Jennifer (b. 1985) lives in New Jersey, and runs the graphic and web design company Jennifer DeAngelis Design (est. 2008), which is also listed on MyFonts. The first DP Fonts font on MyFonts is the dingbat face Wintery Mix (2010). In 2011, Jennifer published the handprinted 3d outline face Marquee. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ed is a popular keynote speaker at major type meetings, including, e.g., at TypeCon 2011, where he entertained the crowd with quotes such as I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful. Screw readable. His typefaces---those from PhotoLettering excepted:
Links: Linotype, CV by Elisa Halperin. Daylight Fonts link (in Japanese). Catalog by Daylight, part I, part II. Pics harvested from the web: Portrait With Ilene Strivzer at ATypI 1999. One more with Strivzer. With Jill Bell at ATypI 1999. In action. At TypeCon 2011 with Matthew Carter and Alejandro Paul. At the same meeting with Carole Wahler and with Roger Black. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Ed Benguiat's typefaces. Ed Benguiat's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Flashfonts
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Alexander Walter's shareware DOS-based program that can edit HP LaserJet bitmapped soft fonts. Free demo, full version requires 30USD registration. Walter lives in Middletown, NJ. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontSite
| Online font site run by Sean Cavanaugh (b. Cape May, NJ, 1962) out of Camano Island, WA. This used to be called Title Wave Studios. In the archives, find essays on writing style, rules of typography, and a comparison by Thomas Phinney (program manager of Latin Fonts at Adobe) of T1 and TTF. The Fontsite 500 CD (30 USD) offers 500 classical fonts with the original names, plus a few names I have not seen before, such as Bergamo (=Bembo by Francesco Griffo), Chantilly (=Gill Sans), Gareth (=Galliard), Palladio (=Palatino, Savoy (=Sabon), URWLatino, Unitus, Toxica, Publicity, Plakette, Pericles, Opus (=Optima), Melville, Function, Flanders, Cori Sans, Binner. Uli Stiehl provides proof that many of the fonts at FontSite are rip-offs (identical to) of fonts in Martin Kotulla's collection. Free fonts: Bergamo, CartoGothic (1996-2009), CombiNumerals. At MyFonts, the CombiNumerals Pro and CombiSymbols dingbat families are available since 2010. The site has a number of fonts with the acronym FS in the name, so I guess these are relatively original (but I won't swear on it): Allegro FS, Beton FS, Bodoni Display FS (+ Bold, Demibold), Bodoni No 2 FS (+ Ultra, Bodoni Recut FS (+Bold, Demibold), and so forth. His 500 Font CD has these fonts:
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Francesca Farrisi (Phillipsburg, NJ) created a custom copperplate typeface in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Typencyclopedia: A User’s Guide to Better Typography . A type guru, he is Professor emeritus of Rochester Institute of Technology and founder of Electronic Publishing Magazine in 1976. He occasionally writes on early printing technology, such as here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frederick Awich
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Gloss Black
| Glossblack was formed in the Fall of 2009 by two like-minded artists, Jimmy and Daiji, who were finally ready to showcase their talent and make it available to the public. Each artist has a crispy clean, original style. All logos, illustrations, and typefaces are generated from hand drawn originals. Daiji is New Jersey's Daiji Shikama, who designed the all-caps slab serif face Arbuckle Condensed (2011), Slapshot Slab (2011) and the techno face Cleave (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Type historian (b. Ballarat, Australia, 1857-1938), who worked at ATF in New Jersey, and who established the 12,000-volume Typographic Library and Museum in The American Type Founders Building, Jersey City, in 1908 (and which existed there until 1936). It thrived until ATF went bankrupt. In 1936 the Museum collection was acquired by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, curator of Rare Books at Columbia University's Butler Library, who was a friend of Bullen's. It is still at Columbia University today. Bullen did more than anyone in America to preserve typographic history, and for this, we have to be thankful. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Jersey native who lives in San Francisco. He states: "Over the years I've had the good fortune to be very involved with photolettering and type design. In the 1980's I set headlines, letter by letter by letter, on a VGC Typositor at Phil's Photolettering in Washington DC. The desktop computer quickly destroyed that entire industry, and that is how I became involved with computer graphics. In the early 1990s, I designed type for FontBank, and consulted for several other type companies, including Microsoft and Galoob Toys. It's nearly impossible to make a living in type design these days, as the industry was basically done in by a combination of legal precedents and rampant piracy. Having worked on "conventional" / Wester / Roman fonts for so long, I've acquired a preference for unusual or obscure fonts or alphabets. I am always available for type design work or consulting." His designs (not downloadable) include Coptic Chelt, Fruthrak Sans, Ojibway Futurae, Cyrillic-Helv-Flash-8pt, KTR-katakana10, Celestia, Daggers, Enochian Times and Nugsoth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Jersey City, NJ, of this display face (1958). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Moorestown, New Jersey, creator of Dingles, a free Mac dingbat font with funny faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Columbus, NJ-based creator of the squarish typeface Operator (2012). He also created Hangul Neue (2012, experimental Hangul font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I Can Be Your Type
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Ian Lord from Princeton, NJ, designed Caligrapher (2001) [updated here (2003)], and the handwriting font The I Font (2001) at Devian Tart. He updated the latter font to Scrawl (2002) and ScrawlHeavy (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
InDigest Press AvantFonts
| Jeff Wrench (Jeff Rentsch) from Denville, NJ, showcases about eight fonts, and lets you download one. His faces: Glitch (free), Blurrd, Anarchy Mono (a hacker font), JumpCut (nice!), StatBar-SurgeSuppression, Cannibal Times, Royal Pain (old typewriter), RoyalFadeingNormal. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
James A. Lebbad
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New Jersey-based designer (b. 1980) of the handwriting face Jean is Dead (2006). Homepage. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jennifer DeAngelis
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Jennifer designed the intricate wool strand-themed font Strands (2010) and the children's hand Right Height (2010). Majordomo (2010) is a pretty hand-drawn didone. The first DP Fonts font on MyFonts is the dingbat face Wintery Mix (2010). In 2011, Jennifer published the handprinted 3d outline face Marquee, Mermaid NY (mermaid dingbats), Donald (handprinted outline face), Bluebird (2011, a connected italic script), Quail (2011, grunge), REST BORT (2011, a hand-drawn blackboard bold family), White Rabbit (2011, a gorgeous handprinted swashy caps face), Monocle86 (avant-garde), the grungy Snatch n Sniff, and the warped zebra face WEALD. Creations from 2012: the white on black tiled typeface Inthabox, the art deco typeface Esther. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jerry Landers
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Jess Kjer (Cherry Hill, NJ) is a graphic and interactive designer, and a 2010 graduate of Tyler School of Art. She created some lively lettering for posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wood type manufacturer in Allentown, NJ. Specimen of Leavenworth's Patent Wood Type Manufactured by J.M. Debow (1840s) is on-line at the NYPL. From that book: Italian type, Twelve Lines Gothic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jo the Webmistress
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Joshua Korwin
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Located in Edison, NJ, this company sells Hebrew fonts. Some of the fonts: Hardar, Mirifx, Penina, Rashi, Rolit, Shlomo, Siddur, Torah, Aharon, Essex, Moses, Aryeh, Baluk, Budko, Cursiva, Grau, LCD Hebrew, Malka, Miri, Ora, Redis, Temima, Yerushalmi, Bashi, Leah. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of James Madison University who lives in Tuckerton, NJ. Creator of Sam Sans (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kevin Pease
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Lebbadesign (or: Lebbad Design)
| Lebbadesign (Stockton, NJ) is where James Lebbad (b. 1955, Newark, NJ) publishes his work, mostly logotype and lettering. Jim graduated from Kutztown University in 1977. He is a winner of an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002, with Globetrotter, a fine handprinted font. Other fonts: Penske, Campbell Soup, Echo, Takhomasak, Lebbad Roman, Ellen, Janelle. MyFonts sells Alie (2008, a rough-edged script), Antman (2008, reto futuristic face), Bunky (2008), Ellen (2008, a display serif face), Kerb (2008, an elliptical sans), Pastina (2008, a Victorian serif), Nicole (2008, a graceful condensed face), Zoomba (2009, a script), Lebbad Script (2011, retro signage face), Juliana Joy (2012, a sharp-edged serif face). View the typefaces designed by James Lebbad. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Lerfu
| Lerfu is Mark E. Shoulson's foundry located in Highland Park, NJ. Creator of a variety of fonts:
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Leslie Cabarga
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Calligrapher in Princeton, NJ. Behance link. Creator of sseveral calligraphic alphabets in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer (b. Little Falls, NJ, 1844, d. plainfield, NJ, 1932) who lived in New Jersey. He cut Century Expanded (1894) based on a design of Th. L. De Vinne. This typeface was later redrawn by Benton's son, Morris Fuller Benton in 1900. He managed manufacturing at ATF from 1892 until his death in 1932. Article by Patricia Cost for Printing History: Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton,&Typemaking at ATF. Cynthia Jacquette writes about Linn Boyd and his son. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Lyle C. Briggs
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During her studies in Clifton, NJ, Maria Remedios Tubil created the pster display face Simple Blox (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mark E. Shoulson
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Holmdel, NJ-based designer of the Open Font Library fonts Cammel (2008, bold italic) and Ridiculous (2008, an architectural drawing font). View the fonts here, and download them here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Atlantic Highlands, NJ-based designer of Rockface (2012), a custom font based on rock formations. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Morristown, NJ, who studied at SVBA in New York. Creator of Slope (2012), the ink splatter typeface Wipe Here (2012) and the monoline rounded stencil typeface LGD (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Jersey-based designer, b. 1963, who created the free fonts SilverStream, Isamu and Breakaway (a face not unlike Impact) in 2004. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Monticello
| A type-historical article by Charles Creesy, Director of Publishing Technologies, Princeton University Press, about the Monticello typeface. Summarizing the lifeline of this typeface from Creesy's analysis:
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View Morris Fuller Benton's typefaces. A longer list. A listing of various digital versions of News Gothic. More News Gothic-like typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Mouser Fonts
| From Collingswood, NJ, Jerry Landers' 1390-font archive with clear identification of the creators. Jerry drew a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. Original designs by MouseFonts: Waters Gothic, Waters Gothic Deux, Waterhole (2000), Animal Caps (2000), Bouwsma Uncial, Foundational, Georgia Pond, Gourdie Cursive, Goudie Cursive Deux, Gourdie Handwriting, Gourdie Uncial, Gourdie Gothic Black, Gourdie Uncial Deux, Ken's Calligraphic, Korger Gothic Deux. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the handwriting fonts Scripted Genesis (2009), Oblivion Shattered (2009), Elvira's Touch (2009) and Markie's Fault (2009, marker pen font). The designer, Eva (b. 1990, New Jersey) is an illustrator. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Petroglyphic Design (or: PetroFontLab, or: Petro Design)
| PetroFontLab, or Petroglyphic Design, or Petro Design, offers free fonts by New Jersey-based graphic designer Alfredo Gravato: Refluxed (futuristic), Tekhead (futuristic), Purple Tentacle (grungy), Cubist Dreams, Meat Paper. |
Graphic designer in New Jersey who created Calendario Azteka (2012, posters and alphabet). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
East Hanover, NJ-based font seller. All fonts have a copyright notice to both Adobe and Varityper. This anomaly prompted me to look at things up close, and to decide that their fonts are derived works (like those produced by Brendel, SSi, and WSI). That is, control points on the outlines are slightly moved. Here is a partial list compiled by a good friend: Calligraphiques is Classic Script (Mecanorma), Chaplet is Diskus (Berthold), Calligrapher is Basilica (Agfa), Alexandra is Fine Hand (Letraset), Fredrica is AmazoneBT (Bitstream), Ideal Script is Englische Schreibschrift (Berthold), Mistress is Murray Hill (Bitstream), Florentine is Florentine Script (Agfa), and Francine is Francis (Lanston Type). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Raquel Aparicio, one of a group of illustrators called Purple rain Illustrators in Princeton, NJ, published an erotic all-caps alphabet in American Illustration 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ray Cruz
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Robert Alonso
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Robert Fauver
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This machine was developed in New Jersey from 1928-1936 for the banknote industry. It feartured master alphabets on glass plates, effectively stating the photo-lettering era. Peter Bain writes: Only a mere handful of the Rutherford machines had been sold and put into use. The Electrographic Corporation, then owner of one of New York City's leading typographers, decided to launch a start-up proposed and staffed by departing Rutherford employees, notably Edward Rondthaler and Harold Horman. The new midtown firm of Photo-Lettering Inc., starting in 1936, took advantage of the underutilized technology, and claimed an early commercialization of phototype. While not text photocomposition, Photo-Lettering was never handlettering as the name implied. Photography freed the typographic image from the historic constraints of metal, allowing flexibility in scale, dimension, and position, variations which had previously required letter-drawing skills. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Jersey-based designer of the freeware font Pigeon Snatch (see FontFreak site), Red Herring (1997, Chank's) and ChestyLove. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
(Sara) Sally Stansley (Princeton, NJ) designed Acropora (2013), which was inspired by the branch-like Acropora species of coral. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author (b. Cape May, USA, 1962) of Digital Type Design Guide (Hayden Books, ISBN 1-56830-190-1, 1995), which for 45 US dollars comes with a CD with 220 useful PostScript and TrueType fonts (not designed by Sean though). A second 260-font CD for 30USD. He runs The Fontsite, where you can download free versions of CombiNumerals 4.0 (circled numbers), ATF Antique (ATF Antique was first released by the Barnhardt Bros.&Spindler type foundry in 1842. It was designed for sign cutting, and saw much use throughout the latter 19th century. Its popularity led to its re-introduction by ATF in 1905 under the name Antique 1. It is the precursor to the typefaces Bookman and Rockwell.), Goudy Sans, US Flag Font, Mini 7 and Mini 7 Tight (pixel fonts). Earlier, there were also Dynamo and Rosie. Commercial faces of his include the CombiSymbols family. Free fonts at FontSite: Bergamo, CartoGothic, CombiNumerals. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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SnailWorks
| Lyle C. Briggs' outfit in Garfield, NJ. Lyle is a graphic designer/webmaster. About 12 original fonts (commercial, usually display style), and custom font design at 200 to 1000 dollars per font. An extremist style, culminating in the gorgeous font "not" and in the eccentric "libre". Site under reconstruction. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Type designer (b. New Jersey, 1967). He is involved in ornament design at the foundry of Charles Nix, New Fonts in New York, where he helped create Nani, NixRift and Tuk Tuk. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Long Island, Susan Johnson lives in New Jersey and works in Philadelphia. During her studies at Rutgers University, she designed the multiline display typeface ContrAversy (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in New Jersey who created a curly typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Teeline Fonts
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He published Ambicase Modern (2010), a unicase font) and Ambicase Fatface (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
The Netstar Fresh Fonts
| Original free fonts by New Jersey's Jo "the webmistress" include Dorothy at the Algonquin (nice display font!), Bourbon Decay, Nini Beans, Rabbit Redux, Magic Marker, Pop Bop, SeeMyEtchings (caps), Digital Logic (pixel font), Spaple Gun, Testosterone, LALA, Toolbox Metal, Cafe Fontana, Floppy Disk, Squaresville. Truetype for PC. Alternate URL. Interview with Jo. Links. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
c/o Unipro Inc., 45 River Drive South, #105, Jersey City, NJ 07310, USA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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New York City and New Jersey-based designer of the display typeface Wendel (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Three Steps Ahead
| Joshua Korwin (b. 1983) is the creative director of Three Steps Ahead, which he founded in 2001 in Marlboro, NJ. Creator of the digital revival GoudyFancy (2004), an OpenType signage typeface posted on December 23, 2004, on alt.binaries.fonts and later published at MyFonts [for another digital revival of this face of Frederic Goudy, see Goudy Two Shoes by Canada Type]. He also created Bauer House (2006, T-26), an art deco display face. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Digital artist in Red Bank, NJ. In 2012, he created the modular typefaces Digital Sandwich, and Openface Digital Sandwich, and the art deco typeface Knuckle Sandwich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ramsey, NJ-based graphic designer who made this type study in 2008. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typeology
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Graphic designer in Newark, NJ, who made Arial Fuzion (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Punchcutter, b. 1851, Southgate, UK. Picture. In 1865, he went to Flinsch in Frankfurt to study punchcutting with William Kirkwood. Then he left for Chicago, and became American. His later work was done while he lived in Bayonne, New Jersey. His typefaces, often quite ornamental and/or Victorian, were all done at Marder, Luse & Co, except Adtype (+Italic) (1903, ATF), Lithograph Shaded (1914, ATF), a typeface patented by ATF in 1916, and Alfereta (ca. 1897, Crescent Type Foundry). Google atent link. The Marder, Luse faces by date:
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New York-based inventor (with A.R. Gillmore) of the pantograph, which allowed fast and accurate copying of wood type, in 1834. He enters into a partnership with his father in law, J.M. Debow, to manufacture wood type commercially in Allentown, NJ. Production starts in 1836 under the supervision of E.R. Webb. George Bruce buys out Leavenworth and Debow and sells it to E.R. Webb, who promptly goes into a partnership with Darius Wells in 1839, at which time Wells&Webb was formed. Specimen of Leavenworth's Patent Wood Type Manufactured by J.M. Debow (1840s) is on-line at the NYPL. Digital revivals include Poplar (1990) by Barbara Lind at Adobe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Prolific type designer, b. Camden, NJ, in 1847. He died in 1898 in Atlantic City, NJ. Many of his designs are late Victorian and art nouveau. As a punch cutter, engraver and type designer. he created typefaces for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Bruce Type Foundry, Central Type Foundry, Farmer Little & Co (later A.D. Farmer & Sons), Keystone Type Foundry, and ATF. His typefaces:
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Zachariah Nelson
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Anthony hails from Northern New Jersey and studied design at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he earned an MFA in 2001. He has worked as a designer in New York (where he currently lives), San Francisco and Miami. Author of 
Jersey City-based designer of the outline ornamental caps face 
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Born in New York in 1927, Ed grew up in Brooklyn. He was once a very prominent jazz percussionist playing in several big bands with Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, among others. He has created a large number of typefaces between 1970 and 1995. About his career, he once said: I'm really a musician, a jazz percussionist. One day I went to the musician's union to pay dues and I saw all these old people who were playing bar mitzvahs and Greek weddings. It occurred to me that one day that's going to be me, so I decided to become an illustrator. He designed more than 400 faces for PhotoLettering. He played a critical role in establishing The International Typeface Corporation (or ITC) in the late '60s and early '70s. Founded in 1971 by designers Herb Lubalin, Aaron Burns, and Ed Ronthaler, ITC was formed to market type to the industry. Lubalin and Burns contacted Benguiat, whose first ITC project was working on Souvenir. Ed became a partner with Lubalin in the development of U&lc, ITC's famous magazine, and the creation of new typefaces such as Tiffany, Benguiat, Benguiat Gothic, Korinna, Panache, Modern No. 216, Bookman, Caslon No. 225, Barcelona, Avant Garde Condensed, and many more. With Herb Lubalin, Ed eventually became vice-president of ITC until its sale to Esselte Ltd. 
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New Jersey-based author of 
Zachariah Nelson (I Can Be Your Type) studied graphic design at Philadelphia University. Clayton, NJ-based designer of the curly flared caps typeface 
Born in New Jersey in 1985, Jennifer DeAngelis Gunn still lives in New Jersey, where she runs the graphic and web design company 
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Prolific American type designer (b. 1872, Milwaukee, d. 1948, Morristown, NJ), who published over 200 alphabets at ATF. He managed the ATF type design program from 1892 until 1937. Son of Linn Boyd Benton. 
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Indian graphic designer who lives in Jersey City. 
Speedball pens were invented by Hunt Corporation (or Hunt Company) which was located in Camden, NJ and later (since 1958) in Statesville, NC. The highlights of that company: 
Ursula Suess was born in 1924 to German parents in Camden, NJ, and grew up in Munich, Germany, where she attended two semesters of design school at the Academy of Fine Art before it burned down during the war. She then studied calligraphy with Anna Simons for two years. She returned to America in 1946 and established herself as a graphic designer working for Oxford University Press, Macmillan Co., Harper, and other publishers. She also taught calligraphy for 20 years at the Westchester Art Workshop, and at the Cooper Union in New York City. In her fifties, she learned to cut gems and became a gem carver. She moved to Green Valley, AZ, in 1998, and has been applying her artistic versatility with clay, water-color and acrylics. In 1972 she designed Book Jacket Italic, one of film type era's most famous typefaces [copied by Phil Martin as Bagatelle]. In 2010, with the help of Patrick Griffin, she released the revised and 
Graphic designer in Princeton, NJ. He wrote a short PDF file on 
![Souvenir was done by Benguiat in 1967 at PhotoLettering. Morris Fuller Benton's original model was from 1914. It was described by Simon Loxley as follows: Souvenir is a face that is intractably rooted in style to a particular era, although one a half-century after its creation. It is a quintessential late 1960s and 1970s typeface, informal, with full rounded character shapes and rounded serifs, a laid-back Cheltenham. The Bitstream version of ITC Souvenir was called Sovran. ITC Tiffany (1974), a fashion mag typeface family. Adobe says that it is a blend of Ronaldson, released in 1884 by the MacKellar Smiths&Jordan foundry, and Caxton, released in 1904 by American Type Founders. PL Torino (1960, Photo-Lettering), a blackboard bold didone-inspured typeface. In 2004, House Industries released five faces based on the lettering of Ed Benguiat: Ed Interlock (1400 ligatures---based on Ed's Interlock, Photolettering, 1960s), Ed Roman (animated bounce), Ed Script, Ed Gothic and Bengbats. He did logotypes for many companies, including Esquire, New York Times, Playboy, Reader's Digesn, Sports Illustrated, Look, Estée Lauder, AT&T, A&E, Planet of the Apes, Super Fly. Lesser known Photolettering faces include Benguiat Bounce, Benguiat Boutique, Benguiat Bravado, Benguiat Brush, Benguiat Buffalo (+Ornaments), Benguiat Century, Benguiat Cinema, Benguiat Congressional, Benguiat Cooper Black, Benguiat Cracle, Benguiat Crisp, Benguiat Debbie, Benguiat Montage, Benguiat Roman. Scorpio, Laurent and Charisma, all done in the 1960s, are psychedlic types.](EdBenguiat--PLBernhardt-1970.png">PL Bernhardt</a> (Photo-Lettering, 1970), modeled after a 1930-1931 design by Lucian Bernhard. <LI>ITC Bookman (1975). See B791 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat-Calendar-1960s.gif">Calendar</a> (1960s). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat--ITCCaslonNo224---MediumBlack-Small.gif">ITC Caslon 224</a> (<a href="EdBengiuiat--ITCCaslon224--1983.gif">1983</a>). In 1960, he added <a href="EdBenguiat--BenguiatCaslonSwash-1960s.gif">Benguiat Caslon Swash</a>, and in 1970, <a href="EdBenguiat--Caslon223-1970.gif">Caslon 223</a> followed. See C790 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002), and <a href="ClaudePelletier-CaslonCP-2012.png">Caslon CP</a> (2012, Claude Pelletier). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat--ITCCenturyHandtooled-1993.gif">ITC Century Handtooled</a> (1993). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat--ITCCheltenhamHandtooled-1993.gif">ITC Cheltenham Handtooled</a> (1993). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat--ITCEdwardianScript.gif">ITC Edwardian Script</a> (1994). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat--ITCGaramondHandtooled-1993.gif">ITC Garamond Handtooled</a>. <LI>ITC Korinna (1974): after a 1904 face called Korinna by Berthold. <a href="https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0504&L=typo-l&T=0&P=4224">Michael Brady</a> thinks it is a very very close to the Berthold original. <LI><a href="EdBenguiat--Laurent-1960s.gif">Laurent</a> (1960s). <LI><a href="HerbLubalin+AntonioDiSpigna+JoeSundwall+EdwardBenguiat-ITCLubalinGraphDemi.gif">Lubalin Graph</a> (1974, ITC). By Herb Lubalin, Ed Benguiat, Joe Sundwall, and Tony DiSpigna. <LI>ITC Panache Book (1987). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat-Scorppio-1960s.gif">Scorpio</a> (1960s). <LI><a href="EdBenguiat-ITCSouvenirMedium-1977-after-MorrisFullerBenton-1914.gif">ITC Souvenir</a> (1977). <a href="http://typophile.com/node/45882">Kent Lew</a>: <i>Benguiat revived Benton){kind=link}
