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Lanston Type Company

A Legacy in Typography: Lanston Type's Evolution
Origins & Revolution in Typesetting: In 1887, Tolbert Lanston patented his groundbreaking mechanical typesetting device. This innovation was the genesis of the Monotype casting machine, propelling the Lanston Monotype Company to global acclaim. Until then, typesetting remained largely unchanged since Gutenberg's hand-set movable type.
Global Reach & Key Figures: By the late 19th century, Lanston expanded internationally by licensing its technology to a UK-based counterpart. During America's typographic golden age, Frederic Goudy, a leading type designer, served as Lanston's art director (1920-1947). Though the Philadelphia-based Lanston Monotype eventually became distinct from its UK peer (which was thereafter known simply as "Monotype"), its influence remained unshaken.
Acquisitions & Relocation: 1969 marked Lanston's acquisition by the American Type Founders. Following various ownership transitions, master printer Gerald Giampa acquired the company in 1988 and relocated it to Prince Edward Island. Despite these changes, Lanston continued to cater to America's monotype hot metal type demands until a tidal wave tragically destroyed most of the company's assets in 2000.
Digital Age & Modern Stewardship: Gerald Giampa, an early pioneer in PostScript fonts, channeled his energy into digitization post-tragedy. Under his guidance, Lanston's iconic typefaces were digitized, preserving their original essence from the brass and lead patterns. After several relocations between Canada and Finland, Lanston found a new home in 2004 with the US-based P22 type foundry. As Giampa set sail as a ship's captain in the northern Pacific, he remained a typographic consultant for Lanston-P22 during his maritime breaks.

LTC Winchell Font

LTC Winchell Font Winchell is the only identified typeface designed in Buffalo, NY prior to the formation of P22 type foundry. It was created by Edward Winchell of the Matthews-Northrup Printing Works and released by the Inland Type Foundry in 1903.

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LTC Village Font

LTC Village Font Village was originally designed by Frederic Goudy in 1903 for Kuppenheimer & Company for advertising use, but it was decided it would be too expensive to cast. It was later adopted as the house face for Goudy's Village Press.

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LTC Caslon Font

LTC Caslon Font Caslon Old Style is recognized as one of the finest examples of the "Old Style" group of type faces. It was originally cut by William Caslon in England, in about 1720, and is rated by many authorities as first for all-around usefulness. The insp

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LTC Circled Caps Font

LTC Circled Caps Font This handy font allows designers of commercial products to add basic circled letters that are uniform in appearance.

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LTC Camelot Font

LTC Camelot Font Camelot was the first of over 100 typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy. The upper case characters were drawn in 1896 for the Dickinson Type Foundry.

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LTC Archive Ornaments Font

LTC Archive Ornaments Font LTC Archive Ornaments derives from a unique collection of brass ornament plates that were originally used in creating the matrices for casting metal type.

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LTC Athena Font

LTC Athena Font LTC Athena brings a somewhat "lost" hot-metal typeface back from obscurity into digital Opentype format. In the Fall of 2012, printing historian Rich Hopkins contacted P22 type foundry regarding some inked type drawings he had just uncovered fro

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LTC Halloween Ornaments Font

LTC Halloween Ornaments Font Halloween is a time when perfectly reasonable people choose to reenact some lost pagan rituals. No one seems to know why exactly, but Halloween has been celebrated in its present form for a little over one hundred years.

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LTC Ornaments Two Font

LTC Ornaments Two Font LTC Ornaments Two is the first Lanston Ornament font which uses OpenType features to assist in decorative border creation. The ornaments themselves features designs of Fournier and other classic fleurons and ornaments whose origins date back to the earlie

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LTC Creepy Ornaments Font

LTC Creepy Ornaments Font In researching historic decorative material offered by Lanston Monotype, as well as other metal foundries such as Barnhart Brothers and Spindler, there were occasionally ornaments that defied description.

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LTC Water Garden Ornaments Font

LTC Water Garden Ornaments Font Watergarden Ornaments is a suite of 11 fonts designed to overlap and layer as connected borders. Single ornament fonts are offered in styles A & D only. A key chart showing key positions and suggested layout is included. A previous version was release

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LTC Ornaments Three Font

LTC Ornaments Three Font LTC Ornaments Three combines ornaments previously released as "Printers Vine Leaves C”, "Printers Fleurons C" and "Water Garden Ornaments Round" plus additional Lanston ornaments for a total of over 70 printers ornaments for sing

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LTC Goudy Extras Font

LTC Goudy Extras Font A set of over 50 ornaments, connecting borders, flourishes and decorative motifs originally designed by Frederic Goudy throughout his career. Many of these designs were used by Goudy at his Village Press and offered by his Village Foundry in the 1920s. Th

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LTC Figures Font

LTC Figures Font Originally released in digital form under the name "Figures Square", this symbol font has been expanded to include round numbering glyphs in full and half circles to make any round encapsulated 2 digit number combination quickly and effortlessly

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LTC Fleurons Garamont Font

LTC Fleurons Garamont Font This selection of decorative characters is comprised primarily of ornaments designed by Bruce Rogers to accompany the Lanston release of Goudy's Garamont fonts in 1923. The ornaments were modeled after 16th century ones and are more than a fitting co

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LTC Fleurons Rogers Font

LTC Fleurons Rogers Font Bruce Rogers is famous for designing with Lanston Monotype ornaments, but he also designed many of the ornaments himself. The 80 ornaments found in this collection can be arranged in a wide variety of patterns for striking borders in the style of Bruce Ro

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LTC Fleurons Granjon Font

LTC Fleurons Granjon Font This suite of over 100 decorative characters is attributed to Robert Granjon from the late 1500s. The designs were redrawn by the Lanston drawing office in the 1920s and made famous by the work of Bruce Rogers, who found endless ways to make fresh composi

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LTC Vine Leaves Font

LTC Vine Leaves Font LTC Vine Leaves is a collection of printers ornaments and flourishes. The designs in this font were previously issued as "Vine Leaves Folio One & Two". Over 100 glyphs are included for creation of border treatments or single accents in taste

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LTC Ornaments Animalia Font

LTC Ornaments Animalia Font Lanston Monotype made individual ornaments that could be ordered as needed. They were not generally sold as "fonts" as assorted characters, but often individually or in multiples of the same ornament to make borders.

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LTC Ornaments 1 Font

LTC Ornaments 1 Font Lanston Monotype made individual ornaments that could be ordered as needed. They were not generally sold as "fonts" but often individually. This collection features a truly odd assortment of abstract and literal imagery. From Masonic symbols to

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LTC Ornaments Two Pro Font

LTC Ornaments Two Pro Font LTC Ornaments Two was the first Lanston Ornament font to use OpenType features to assist in decorative border creation. The ornaments themselves feature designs of Fournier and other classic fleurons and ornaments whose origins date back to the earliest p

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LTC Holiday Ornaments Font

LTC Holiday Ornaments Font Based on the popular demand of the LTC Halloween and LTC Christmas Ornaments, this font set was assembled for those less commercialized holidays.

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LTC Holly Leaves Font

LTC Holly Leaves Font LTC Holly Leaves consists of three ornament fonts. Holly Leaves A is a solid color set of holly leaves borders. LTC Holly Leaves B is the same ornaments but with just the leaves and LTC Holly Leaves C is just the berries.

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LTC Christmas Ornaments Font

LTC Christmas Ornaments Font The Lanston Christmas Ornaments collection has a definite nostalgic feel for classic Christmas and Winter iconography.

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