Links
Research
• Devroye, Luc Ph.D. (McGill University, Montreal):
• Index
• Foundries of the 19th Century
• Extinct 20th-century Letterpress Type Producers
• Victorian Typefaces
• Wood Type
• Fabian, Nicholas (deceased, ‘Way Back Machine)
• Resourceful browsing here finds “back doors” to apparently dead links.
• Briar Press (USA), an online letterpress community
• Free and inexpensive downloads of EPS “Cuts & Caps” for registered members.
• Lee, Robert (Garden City, NY) Museum of Wood Types and Ornaments
• MyFonts|Bitstream, Inc. (Marlborough, MA). Caution: mis-information abounds…
• Klingspor Museum (Offenbach). Caution: conflicting information abounds…
• Designers
• Producers
• St. Bride Library (London), “The world’s foremost printing and graphics arts library.”
• Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY). Typefaces Designed by Goudy. RIT’s Goudy website was discontinued several years ago—the linked PDF, downloaded in 1998, is the original list.
• The Museum of Printing (Andover, MA). Dedicated to preserving the history of the graphic arts, printing equipment and printing craftsmanship.
• Sheaff, Richard D. (The Ephemera Society of America). “A place for show-and-tell, wondering aloud, and wandering the trails of curiosity.”
• Ladas & Parry, LLC (Multiple US Cities). History of US Patent and Trademark Law.
Revivals
• Heidorn, Petra: Type Oasis (Hamburg?). Explore this extraordinary site!
• Type Art: Blackletters, Initials, Ornaments
• Fontennium: A Collection of Fonts Through the Centuries
• Themes: Koch Memorial, Blackletter Revival, Pirates!
• Designers: Revival favorites Manfred Klein, Dieter Steffmann, David Rakowski, many more
• Volunteers, alt.binaries.fonts. Don’t miss the “Extra” Tab!
Revivals and more, digitized by members
Solopedia: Cross-Reference of Specimen Books by Dan X. Solo, sources for digital versions
• Offsite. Great collection specializing in revivals, verified freeware. Some THP Picks:
•Aldus•Allen R. Walden•Character•Claude Pelletier•ES Typography
George Williams•James Milligan•Robert Moore•Toto•Traitor Vic
• FontSpace, endorsed by THP-fave revival font developers. Handy tags for collectors:
Dan X. Solo•Dover•Solotype•Western•Old Western•Tuscan•Victorian
