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This is a specimen of Antique Shaded, designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1910. It was released in 1913 to herald ATF’s shaded type series.
Just bought a font of this (10pt metal type) from eBay! Excited to start using it.
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Another of our favorites - Forum, designed by Goudy. It’s still being cast by M&H, but we got two fonts of it in good condition on eBay. My favorite thing might be the Y. Or the R. It seems that everyone loves Trajan these days, but I much prefer Forum as far as Roman revivals go!
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Grungy picture of our Missal Initials, half of them anyway.
We use them in our Sherwood thank you cards - along with the palm border I posted a few days ago - and a wedding suite, with more on the way (isn’t there always?). They were designed by Will Bradley, who only designed a few fonts but whose fonts are some of my favorite of all time.
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Amazed that the intricate details on these initials are, for the most part, still printing perfectly fine, after a long, long time in use.
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A new set of initials (well, new to us, that is) - Burford Initials!
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We have Cochin in a few incarnations - Light, Open, Nicolas - but this one is plain old Cochin. Need to get the Italic version next!
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our newest wedding suite, editor! minimal to the max, we only used one font for the entire thing - printed on cotton lettra and recycled newsprint.
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A font of Filigree initials - originally produced by MacKellar, Smiths, and Jordan - designed by Hermann Ilhenburg (who did lots of typefaces we like). It was released in 1878 and our set dates from not too long after that, judging by the foundry’s pin marks.
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One of the new fonts we just received from Skyline - we’re excited to have a bunch of new designs in the works!
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From the 1900 ATF specimen book - another border we have in our library.
