TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Fri Dec 13 00:54:24 EST 2024
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Charles W. Heergeist
Type designer in Philadelphia who patented a flared serif typeface in 1898. The Keystone Type foundry issued this as Admiral (see their 1906 specimen book, pp. 121-131). Well, a cautionary note: the people patenting the typefaces of a foundry were often not the designers, but the owners or managers, so it is not 100% certain that Heergeist designed Admiral. Emerge BF (2009, John Bomparte) was inspired by Admiral, c.1900. For a free digital version, we had to wait until 2012, when Stylus made a free typeface called Heergeist. That font was renamed Admiral Davy Jones a few days later by Stylus. |
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