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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 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 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 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 Twentieth Century Pro Font

LTC Twentieth Century Pro Font 20th Century is a modern sans serif with apparent geometry yet it still has a certain warmth in its design. It is based on Paul Renner's Futura and was redrawn by Sol Hess for Lanston Monotype.

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LTC Tourist Gothic Font

LTC Tourist Gothic Font Tourist Gothic is a Lanston Monotype adaptation of Modern Condensed Gothic (a design from the late 1800s.) Rounded alternate caps were designed by Sol Hess in 1928. The alternate version is offered as LTC Tourist Gothic Alt.

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LTC Swing Bold Font

LTC Swing Bold Font This mono-weight script face evokes advertising of the 1930s & 40s. LTC Swing Bold, was based on Kaufmann Bold, which was released by ATF (American Type Founders) in 1936. Kaufmann proved extremely popular in its day. For that reason ATF was not willi

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LTC Squareface Font

LTC Squareface Font Designed by Sol Hess in 1940 as a variation of Stymie Extrabold, but with squared corners where round shapes would normally be. This striking display face is found in only some Lanston Monotype catalogs and specimens are somewhat hard to find.

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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 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 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 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 Ornamental Initials Font

LTC Ornamental Initials Font Little is known of the origin of these decorative Initial Caps. Series 448 at 24 point were a different design from the 36 point on which this digital version is based. Rather than just include the basic 26 characters (only 25 existed in the original vers

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LTC Metropolitan Font

LTC Metropolitan Font This font family is a revival of Centaur by Bruce Rogers(1870-1957) and Arrighi by Frederic Warde (1894-1939). A previous digital version was released by Giampa Textware/Lanston Type Co. in 1987.

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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 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 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 Goudy Text Font

LTC Goudy Text Font Frederic Goudy designed this blackletter face based on Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible in 1928. The Lombardic Caps were designed as an accompaniment to Goudy Text and are offered paired with the lower case as an alternate option.

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LTC Goudy Sans Font

LTC Goudy Sans Font Goudy Sans Bold was originally designed by Fredric Goudy in 1922 as a less formal "gothic" and finished in 1929. The light was designed in 1930 and the Light Italic in 1931. Alternate letterforms are included in these three Goudy designs, which

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LTC Goudy Initials Font

LTC Goudy Initials Font LTC Goudy Initials has been a best-seller since it was reformatted to font format by P22 in 2005. We decided that while it works very well at medium sizes, when it was used extra large, the outlines were not as true to Frederic Goudy’s 1917 drawings as th

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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 Glamour Font

LTC Glamour Font Glamour was originally released by Lanston Monotype in 1948. It is based on Corvinus and designed by Imre Reiner. Designer Colin Kahn has added some unusual variants to this family, illustrating that glamour can be taken too far and have somewhat unglamor

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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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