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Julius Herriet Sr

Born in 1818 in Braunschweig, Germany. He emigrated to the United States where he worked as a type designer for various foundries in New York. His work includes these typefaces:

• Bruce Type Foundry: Black (Extended, Extra Condensed, Slope, Italian), Circular Italic, German Text 580, Harrington, Italian Antique, Italian Black Ornamented (1872), Ornamented No. 1025, Bruce's Ornamented no. 1048 (faux Chinese), Ornamented No. 1060 (1878), Ornamented No. 1515 (1867), Ornamented No. 1522 (1871), Ornamented No. 1526 (1871), Ornamented No. 1528 (1873), Ornamented No. 1532 (1875), Ornamented No. 1533 (1873), Ornamented No. 1542 (1876), Ornamented No. 1543 (1876), Ornamented No. 1545 (1876), Ornamented No. 1549 (1868), Ornamented No. 1551 (1878), Ray Shaded Black, Rustic 1048, Soutache (1873, a Tuscan typeface revived by Font Mesa as Main Street), St. Clair (1875), Stephen Ornate (1877).
• Conner Type Foundry: Cosmopolitan, Curved Antique, Latin Ornate (+Shaded), Mayflower, Nero, Octagon (1885, +Shaded, 1883), Old Style Title, Ornamented Text (+Shaded), Pilgrim, Roman Shaded, Text (+Italic).
• Johnson Type Foundry: Gothic Tuscan, Modern Text (+Open), National (1856), Recherche.

In 2021, Alejandro Paul paid homage to Julius Herriet's Old Style Ornamented in his Plethora, an 18-style family and two variable fonts by adding various frills, ligatures, weights, exaggerating the design in true Victorian spirit.

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