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Elegant Vintage Caps of the ’20s

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Last edited May 04, 2014
brandy
microphysics
Do not annoy by playing golf

Carlton is based on a typeface designed by Prof. F. H. Ehmcke. In 1908, Ehmcke released his Ehmcke-Antiqua design through the Flinsch typefoundry in Germany. Ehmcke-Antiqua was later distributed by the Bauer typefoundry in Frankfurt am Main.The Caslon Letter Foundry in England discovered the design and released their own typeface based upon the model, which they named Carlton. Carlton entered... Read More

rocket
wunderkinder
Schedule smell of panda droppings

ITC Luna is the work of Japanese designer Akira Kobayashi. He turned to the designs of the 1930s for his inspiration for both ITC Luna and ITC Silvermoon. "Luna is designed to fill the gap between a pure Art Deco display face and an ordinary text face," says Kobayashi. "It has an Art Deco style but is still fairly easy to read. It can be used in short passages of text. As for individual... Read More

winter
enthusiastic
Do not write on the stalactites

ITC Vintage is a collaborative effort by California designer Holly Goldsmith and Ilene Strizver. It was inspired by several character shapes found in an all caps headline from a 1915 magazine advertisement. Working under Strizver's art direction, Goldsmith sketched the remaining caps in pencil on vellum, revised them, and after scanning them, added the final adjustments in Fontographer. It... Read More

Charles Gibbons
Bitstream 2000
Garrett Boge and Paul Shaw
LetterPerfect 1997
Esselte Letraset and F.H. Ehmcke
ITC 1910
Akira Kobayashi
ITC 1998
Holly Goldsmith and Ilene Strizver
ITC 1996
Morris Fuller Benton
Bitstream 1928
Gert Wiescher
Wiescher Design 1985