B-42 Blackletter We have a 2-Page Font in stock, schemed Bible setting. This font will set any 2 pages of Gutenberg's Bibel, with some exceptions. . Click Here for further information. We can send a prospectus and showing of the types in text use via USPS or email a price list if you are interested in obtaining a font for text use. |
Feb. 20, 2008 First the good news; We have been very busy casting bookfonts for customers who have realized it's now or never. If you have the means, now is the time to insure foundry-cast type in your future. Please feel free to email us even if you don't know just what you need or want. We'll do our best to custom-scheme a font for you and your budget. Take a look at "A Note to Academic Prog...." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have assembled a small auxiliary font of many of the unseen/unavailable American Uncial characters cut by Victor Hammer. There are only 28 fonts available of this once in a lifetime offer. The font contains the unique personal pronoun "I"; long s; 2 sizes of paragraph marks; Euro quotes; cap & l-case dipthongs; musical Call & Response signs; cap & l-case accents; some points and more. This is a one-time limited casting. (Note: these types will not phase with Stempel or Castcraft fonts unless refitted) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We also have put up a few small fonts of 18pt Cloister OS S-caps for binders and printers. A first for us in this size. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have recast Will Bradley's Bradley's Combination Ornaments and can be purchased through NA Graphics http://order.nagraph.com/page20.html. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We now have 16pt S O L E M N I S in stock, which was cast this time last year, but sold out in 6 wks.. The face was originally cast in Germany by J. Wagner Tpfy.. This font was cast by the Dale Guild Tpfy from electrotyped matrices fabricated at the Guild. The types were cast on one of our ATF Barth foundry casters using an alloy made from primary metals. These are the hardest printing types you can buy. They are more than hard enough for hot-stamping. If you are not familiar with the use of new ATF or Dale Guild types, do yourself a big favor and put a font to the test. You won't need makeready. These types are .918 high, and stay that way for a long, long time. You can set and distribute, again & again and still need no makeready. Of course, someday you will, but you can delay this further by rotating the types, especially if you have several fonts in use. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL CALLIGRAPHIC UNCIAL TYPE, but is based on the Capitalis Quadrata form, ca. 300AD (note the variant T of early Roman form). There are 10 pcs. of each T, so you can get two very different looks from one font by using one or the other, or both. Want to set a small book? Buy 10-12 fonts. we will ship them free. Want to set a Christmas card? Buy 2-4 fonts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Goudy's 22/18 VILLAGE TITLING has been cast, and about 25 fonts will be put up and boxed before Thanksgiving. Use the links below to place your order. We cast apprx. 25 fonts which represent the 2nd casting this year. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victor Hammer's 14pt AMERICAN UNCIAL is in stock both in complete 10A/20a fonts and 20a lower-case fonts for those who want to set some text. They are available here on ebay; if you do not have any ebay account, just email the Art Dept and let us know what you want and we will get it to you right away. We have no plans to cast this font again unless someone is interested in ordering a bookfont. So speak now or forever hold.............. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hammer's 24 RATDOLT TITLING, is in stock! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Primose Border is also in stock! as are 24pt Moon Phases, 18pt Arrighi Ornaments and a variety of 72pt ATF Penline Flourishes. All and more are available directly or via ebay. See links above. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We work at the foundry on a part-time basis, so if there is something you want, now is the time to ask. The order of a book-font goes right to the top of our casting schedule, so there is no guarantee that we will ever cast a particular face even if we hope to get to one font or another. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fonts scheduled for 2008 include Frederic Warde's original Arrihgi on an 18pt body; 16 Franciscan w. Friar small-caps; 16 Baskerville w. SC; 14 Mediaeval; and if the string of life permits, 14 Caslon 471 w. sc and quaints, and 24 Civilite. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: International Shipping Types are best sent via Global Priority Flat-rate Air Mail. They will have a special box that will carry up to 20pounds for $25.00 to Canada, all other countries @ $39.00. This means you can ship about five fonts for this cost. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now for the bad news; The price has gone up another dollar a lb. since our summer metal purchase, which is alsmost gone. We will have to buy metal again in January, and our retail prices will reflect this continuing insanity. It is much like watching gas and heating oil prices. The price of type metal has gone way up along with the rest of the world commodities. These fonts were just cast and reflect a vast increase in the cost of our alloy which is made from primary metals. Our supplier has informed us that the Chinese now control the world prices of tin and antimony and that the price sometimes goes up hourly, like gasoline prices or pork bellies. It has doubled in the last 18 months, and in the past 3 years, prices to us have tripled. We thought a lack of interest would be our end, but it now appears that the Chinese will do what our obsolete statis could not, as tin and antimony are the most expensive metals in type alloy. We have not increased our prices in 13 yrs.. We have been absorbing these increases in a romantic effort to continue the craft, but just can't any longer. We don't have to tell you about the prices of other overheads such as natural gas for the casters, electric, heat and property taxes. All these conspire to end our attempts to continue for a little while longer. We buy only alloy made from uncontaminated primary metals as did ATF, not remelted type from which we have no idea of the true alloy ratios. This insures the best possible type that will meet our customer's expectations from yr to year. We could buy cheaper Monotype or Linotype alloy, but we would rather not start down that road. We ask your understanding as we try to keep the prices of our types as low as possible. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMER 2007 We spent June and July casting nearly 700# of B-42. Of course such is the way; no easy work, and in this case, it was during the hottest time of the year. We did much of the casting during the "night shift." Fortunately we had quite a few of the total number of characters in stock, which made the near impossible, possible.. We had four orders to put up; most of the type went to Japan; some was used to set a page for a BBC documentary. It was a very pleasing time for Theo and I, and it was not without a sense of vindication. |