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William W. Jackson

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:

• At A.D. Farmer&Son: Abbey No. 2 (ca. 1886), Flirt (ca. 1886), Horizontal Shaded (1883), Ivy Script, Law Hand (1883), Lockwood (1893), Stationers Script (before 1890).
• At Keystone Type Foundry: Ancient Gothic (1891), Gothic Script (1891). Ancient Gothic was revived as Vasari NF (2011, Nick Curtis).
• At MacKellar, Smiths&Jordan: Aquatint (1878), Cabalistic (1879), Cadmus (1887), Campanile (1879), Cimmerian (1882), Circular Script (1883), Cruickshank (1886: for a digital version, see Cruickshank ML (2012, Tom Wallace)), Eastlake (1879), Edson (1881), Fancy Gothic (1883), Fresco (1883), Graphic Text (1883), Jenson (1890), Kitcat or KitKat (1883), Koster Initials (1888), Medallic (1884), Mezzotype (1890), Monkish (1884), Myrtle Script (1885), Parsee (1888), Philadelphian Lining Gothic 6 (before 1896), Ripple Text (1878), Roundhead (1883; elsewhere we read that Roundhead is by Charles Beeler), Ruskin (1880), Title Black Shaded (1881), Typo (1891), Unique Celtic (1889). See also this art nouveau typeface from 1886, this script from 1883 and these ornaments from 1979. Other unnamed typefaces at MacKellar: 1878, 1883, 1879, 1882, 1883, 1883, 1888, 1890, 1879.
• At Barnhart Brothers&Spindler: Grace Script (1889), Radial Italic (1885), Standard Script (1887), Umbra (1887). This famous shaded typeface has been copied tens of times. Umbra (1907) was revived by Nick Curtis as Shady Lady NF (2005). Monotype's Umbra is based on a later metal version by Ludlow though. List of digital typefaces based on Umbra.
• At Bruce Type Foundry: Ornamented No. 515 (1876), Ornamented No. 1063 (1879), Ornamented No. 1547 (1875). Images of some typefaces at MacKellar: 1875, 1878.
• At Dickinson Type Foundry: Phinney Script.
• At Central Foundry: Steelplate Script (1888). Mac McGrew: Steelplate Script was advertised by ATF in 1907 as "equal to copperplate printing." It originated with Central Type Foundry in 1888. It is a very delicate traditional connected script, suggestive of nineteenth-century styles. The lowercase is quite small, but in 24-point there is an alternate lowercase font which is smaller yet. For digital revivals, see, e.g., Steelplate Script (2015, Gearwright). Geometric Condensed (with W.W. Jackson, 1882) was revived in 2014 by Robert Donona.

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