Palmer and Rey

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Palmer and Rey [John J. Palmer] Typefounders and printing press in San Francisco. The Miller&Richard Type Foundry of Scotland opened a branch in San Francisco in 1878, headed by John J. Palmer. This branch was sold to Palmer and Valentine J. A. Rey in 1882. In 1884, Palmer&Rey acquired the assets of the Pacific Type Foundry. The company then merged into American Type Founders in 1892. They published New specimen book (1884, San Francisco), in which we find several original typefaces, such as the Octic series (athletic lettering, octagonal) and the very Victorian typeface Oxford. Digitizations: In 2010, Nick Curtis created a digital version of their Courier, and called it Pony Xpress NF. Rightly So NF (2011, Nick Curtis) is a squarish typeface based on Geometric Gothic from the 1884 specimen book of Palmer and Rey---it is hard to imagine that this almost pixelish style was around at that epoch. Oxford was revived by Nick Curtis as Palmer Oxonian NF (2011). Octic was revived in 2012 by Nick Curtis as Easy Eights NF. Alto Rey NF (2014, Nick Curtis) revives an 1884 wedge serif design.	EXTERNAL LINKS [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Palmer and Rey Books on type design ⦿ Type scene in California ⦿ Athletic lettering faces ⦿ Octagonal typefaces ⦿ Foundries of the 19th century ⦿ Nick Curtis ⦿ Victorian typefaces ⦿ Courier and derived typefaces ⦿