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Bernardd William Nadall

Or Berne Nadall, or Bernd Nadall. This designer (b. 1869, Louisville, KY) studied at the Louisville School of Design, worked briefly for some newspapers in Lousville, and then left for Chicago, where he worked for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (The Great Western Type Foundry). For BBS he designed borders, ornaments, and some typefaces such as Faust Text (1896: a quaint blackletter based on uncial lettering later renamed Missal Text in their 1923 catalog), Fifteenth Century (1898), Tell Text (1898) and a typeface now known as Nadall (1895-1896, BBS). The last typeface was digitized by Dan X. Solo as Nadall Regular in 2001.

Creator at BBS of Mazarin (1895), Mazarin Italic (1895). The historians do not mince words about Mazarin. McGrew writes: Mazarin was introduced by BB&S in 1895, redesigned from the Golden Type of William Morris. Mazarin Italic was introduced a year later, but neither typeface lasted long. See Jenson Oldstyle. Mazarin HTF by Hoefler Type Foundry is a digital version.

Nadall also created Caslon Antique (and Italic) in 1895 (Caslon EF Antique in the Elsner&Flake collection, and Caslon Antique in the Linotype collection), a version unlike any original Caslon. Some say it was developed between 1896 and 1898. For another digital version of this, see Caslon Antique (1993, Group Type).

MFC Nadall Medieval (2019, Monogram Fonts Co) and Faust Text (2005, Dan X. Solo) revive Faust Text.

William E. Loy writes about Nadall in The Inland Printer. Patent office link.

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file name: A T F Caslon Antique


file name: Group Type Caslon Antique


file name: Group Type Caslon Antique


file name: Group Type Caslon Antique


file name: Linotype Bernd Nadall Caslon Antique 1896 1898


file name: Linotype Bernd Nadall Caslon Antique 1896 1898b


file name: Bernd Nadall Ornaments 1896


file name: Bernd Nadall Typeface 1901


file name: Bernd Nadall Typeface 1901


file name: Bernd Nadall Typeface 1903


file name: Berne Nadall Inland Printer William E Loy


file name: Berne Nadall Pic


file name: Dan X Solo Nadall 2001 after Bernd Nadall 1985


file name: B B S 1907 Mazarin Initials No1


file name: B B S 1907 Mazarin Initials No2 48pt


file name: B B S 1907 Mazarin Italic No5


file name: B B S 1907 Mazarin No5


file name: B B S 1907 Mazarin No5


file name: B B S 1907 Mazarin No5


file name: Dan Solo Faust 2005 after Bernd Nadall Faust Text 1898


file name: Monogram Fonts Co. M F C Nadall Medieval 2019 299643 002


file name: Monogram Fonts Co. M F C Nadall Medieval 2019 299645


file name: Monogram Fonts Co. M F C Nadall Medieval 2019


file name: B B S 1907 Faust Text







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