Fonts In Use Bibliography
- Annenberg, Maurice
- Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs
Baltimore : Maran Print. Services, 1975.
- Baudin, Fernand
- How Typography Works (and Why It Is Important)
London: Lund Humphries Publishers, 1988.
- Baudin, Fernand
- From Mechanical to Cybernetic Exercises
New York: The Typophiles, 1997.
- Bauer, Friedrich and Hans Reichardt
- Chronik der Schriftgießereien in Deutschland und den deutschsprachigen Nachbarländern. Bearbeitet von Friedrich Bauer, Offenbach am Main 1928. Mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen von Hans Reichardt
Frankfurt am Main: Hans Reichardt, 2011. [PDF]
- Castcraft Industries Inc.
- The Encyclopedia of Phototype Styles
Chicago: Castcraft Industries Inc., 1978.
Contains about 5,000 typefaces for phototypesetting, shown with full glyph sets. Started by the company’s founder David L. Kreiter (1915–1975) and completed by his brothers.
- Daines, Mike
- Faces from Letraset: The story of the display typeface collection
London: eLexicons Limited, 2016.
- Devroye, Luc
- VGC Typefaces
Montreal: Luc Devroye, ?–Present. http://luc.devroye.org/vgc-typefaces.html
A list of typefaces by VGC. Started by Tim Ryan and later managed by Grant Hutchinson. With additions by Freddy Nader.
- Face Photosetting
- Face Typebook
London: Face Photosetting, n.d.
Index mentions “New Additions 1970”. Three ring binders in landscape format (Index and A–C, C–M, M–Z).
- Filmotype
- Lettering Styles Display Types
New York: Filmotype Sales Company, 1955. [Scan of selected pages]
264 typefaces listed.
- Southern New England Typographic Service
- Type Specimen
Hamden, Connecticut: Southern New England Typographic Service, n.d. [Scan, photos]
Includes a section titled “Filmotype Lettering” with 364 styles from the Filmotype library. Dated c. 1958 based on text samples that mention “1958” (p. 10) and “Ford ’58” (p. 26).
- Graphic Products Corporation
- Formatt Cut-Out Acetate Graphic Art Aids: Catalog No. 5
Rolling Meadows, Illinois: Graphic Products Corporation, 1974.
- Graphic Products Corporation
- Formatt Cut-Out Acetate Graphic Art Aids & Formaline Charting Graphic Art Tapes: Catalog No. 6
Rolling Meadows, Illinois: Graphic Products Corporation, 1978.
- Fürst
- Die Schriften des Fotosatzes
Gesamtschriftmuster der Fürst Spezialbetriebe für Satzherstellung in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/M. Fürst, n.d.
Title page: “Alle Fotosatz Schriften 1/75”.
- Fürst
- Der Welt schönste Schriften. Gesamtschriftmuster des Fotosatzes der Fürst Spezialbetriebe für Satzherstellung
Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main: Fürst, n.d.
Dated c. 1976 based on the inclusion of AG Buch Rounded fett (p. 2.004, marked as new), which is dated 1976 in Gorissen 1982. Text samples mention “1976” twice (p. 3.010, 3.036), and quote the lyrics of “Aber bitte mit Sahne” from June 1976.
- Gorissen, Götz Gunnar (editor)
- Berthold Fototypes E1
München: Callwey, June 1974.
- Gorissen, Götz Gunnar (editor)
- Berthold Fototypes E2. Vol. 1. Body Types: Synopsis, Katalog, Layouts; (577 Type Faces)
Berlin: Berthold; München: Callwey, 1980.
- Gorissen, Götz Gunnar (editor)
- Berthold Headlines E3: 1400 Headline faces arranged according to similarity
Berlin: Berthold; München: Callwey, 1982.
- Gray, Nicolete
- Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces
London: Faber & Faber, 1976. Originally published as XIXth Century Ornamented Types & Title Pages in 1938 and reprinted in 1951.
- Hochuli, Jost
- Detail in Typography
London: Hyphen Press, 2008.
- Jaspert, W. Pincus; W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson
- Encyclopedia of Typefaces
Fifth Edition. London: Cassell Illustrated, 2008
- Kelly, Rob Roy
- American Wood Type, 1828–1900: Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1969.
- Lange, Günter Gerhard and Bernd Möllenstädt (editors)
- Berthold Types
Berlin: H. Berthold AG, 1988.
Four volumes (A–B, C–F, G–N, O–Z).
- Letraset Deutschland GmbH
- Letraset
Frankfurt am Main: Letraset Deutschland GmbH, 1976.
- Letraset Deutschland GmbH
- Letraset Handbuch Graphik Design
Frankfurt am Main: Letraset Deutschland GmbH, 1980.
“1981/82” on cover, “©1980” on title page.
- Letraset Deutschland GmbH
- Letraset Handbuch Graphik Design
Frankfurt am Main: Letraset Deutschland GmbH, 1983.
- Letraset Deutschland GmbH
- Letraset Handbuch 87/88
Frankfurt am Main: Letraset Deutschland GmbH, 1987.
- Letraset USA
- The World of Letraset Products
Paramus, NJ: Esselte Letraset, 1994.
- Haab, Armin and Alex Stocker (editors)
- Lettera. A standard book of fine lettering
Teufen, AR: Arthur Niggli Ltd., 1954.
- Haab, Armin and Walter Haettenschweiler (editors)
- Lettera 2. A standard book of fine lettering
Teufen, AR: Arthur Niggli Ltd., 1961.
First published in 1961 with a purple jacket. The 5th edition from 1976 with a light blue cover is completely revised: “Of the original 38 alphabets 19 have survived the test of time, 7 have had to be revised, and 11 were eliminated. To the existing stock 38 alphabets have been added [for] a total of 64 alphabets.”
- Haab, Armin and Walter Haettenschweiler (editors)
- Lettera 3. A standard book of fine lettering
Teufen, AR: Arthur Niggli Ltd., 1968.
- Haab, Armin and Walter Haettenschweiler (editors)
- Lettera 4. A standard book of fine lettering
Teufen, AR: Arthur Niggli Ltd., 1972.
- Lettergraphics International Inc.
- “Do a Comp” 1 Custom
Culver City, California: Lettergraphics International Inc., 1968.
- Lettergraphics International Inc.
- The Complete Lettergraphics Library
Culver City, California: Lettergraphics International Inc., 1976.
- Loy, William E.
- Nineteenth-Century American Designers and Engravers of Type
edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009.
- MacMillan, David M.
- Circuitous Root
2008–Present. https://circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/index.html
- Macmillan, Neil
- An A–Z of Type Designers
London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2006.
- McGrew, Mac
- American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
Second, Revised Edition. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
- Mecanorma
- Mecanorma
Le Perray-en-Yvelines: Mecanorma, 1970.
Includes 131 styles.
- Keuffel & Esser Co.
- Mecanorma Graphic Products
Morristown, New Jersey: Keuffel & Esser Co., 1973, 1974.
- Mecanorma
- Mecanorma 7
Versailles: Mecanorma, n.d.
Page 17 mentions “1975”. Includes 248 styles.
- Mecanorma
- Mecanorma Graphic Book 9
Versailles: Mecanorma, 1980.
Includes 283 styles.
- Mecanorma
- Mecanorma Graphic Book 12
Versailles: Mecanorma, 1986.
Includes 510 styles.
- Mecanorma
- Mecanorma Graphic Book 14
Versailles: Mecanorma, 1988.
Apparently the last comprehensive catalog by the French manufacturer of dry transfer lettering. Includes 605 styles.
- Merriman, Frank
- A.T.A. Type Comparison Book
Advertising Typographers Association of America, 1965.
- Middendorp, Jan
- Dutch Type
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2004.
- Pankow, David (editor)
- American Proprietary Typefaces
New York: American Printing History Association, 1998.
- Phil’s Photo Inc
- Homage to the Alphabet
Second Edition. Rockport, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers Inc., 1985.
- Photo-Lettering Inc.
- 1964 Alphabet Supplement
A collection of new designs added since publication of our Alphabet Thesaurus, supplements 1961, 1962, 1963 and the Xenotypes. New York: 1964.
- Photo-Lettering Inc.
- Alphabet Thesaurus, Vol. 2: A Treasury of Letter Designs
Edward Rondthaler (editor). New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1965.
This comprehensive catalog includes every style in Photo-Lettering’s library up to that date.
- Photo-Lettering Inc
- Photo-Lettering's One Line Manual of Styles: Index to Alphabet Thesaurus Vol. 3, 2, 1
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1971.
- Reichardt, Hans
- International Index of Hot-Metal Typefaces
Frankfurt am Main, 2011. https://www.klingspor-museum.de/Intl_Bleisatz_Index.html
A comprehensive catalog of metal typefaces (for manual and machine composition) known in the 20th century, including older designs. Merges info from Wetzig, Jaspert/Berry/Johnson, and McGrew, with additions from other sources.
- Reichardt, Hans and Otmar Hoefer
- Übersicht der internationalen Schriftdesigner
Oberneisen, ?–Present. http://www.klingspor-museum.de/Kuenstler/Kuenstler_A.html
A list of type designers with links to background information in pdf format, researched and compiled by Hans Reichardt. Includes 10,965 designers as of Sep. 2021.
- Shaw, Paul
- Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story
New York: Blue Pencil Editions, 2009.
- Fontana; Character and David Smith et al. (editors)
- Solopedia: The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces
Abfonts (alt.binaries.fonts), 2012–2015. http://abfonts.freehostia.com/solopedia/
A catalog of digital equivalents of typefaces shown in the Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces (1992) as well as in the various alphabet books authored by Dan X. Solo, the digital fonts from the CDs that came with the alphabet books, and fonts digitized by Solo from his collection of metal types. Includes many freebies and unauthorized digitizations of mixed quality. Doesn’t include information about the original designer or foundry.
- Solo, Dan X.
- The Solotype Catalog of 4,417 Display Typefaces
New York: Dover Publications, 1992. [Scan]
- Spencer, Herbert and Colin Forbes
- New Alphabets A to Z
London: Lund Humphries, 1973.
- Tracy, Walter
- Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design
Boston: David R. Godine, 1986.
- Verein der Schriftgießereien
- VdS-Kartei
Offenbach, 1905–1961. [Scan]
Card index of the Verein der Schriftgießereien, the association of German type foundries (1903–1972). Members registered new typefaces by sending a proof of the glyph set. Comprises more than 1,300 cards.
- Visual Graphics Corporation
- VGC Phototypositor Typeface Directory
New York: Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972.
Shows one-line samples for more than 1,200 film typefaces available for the Photo Typositor, including those reproduced from the T.J. Lyons Antique Type Collection and “many handlettered designs” (copied from Filmotype). [Scan]
- Visual Graphics Corporation
- The World-Famous Photo Typositor Alphabet Library
Tamarac, Florida: Visual Graphics Corporation, 1973.
- Visual Graphics Corporation
- VGC Alphabet Library One Liner
Tamarac: Visual Graphics Corporation, 1982.
- Wallis, Lawrence W.
- Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces 1960–90
London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 1990. [Scan]
- Wetzig, Emil (editor)
- Handbuch der Schriftarten: Eine Zusammenstellung der Schriften der Schriftgießereien deutscher Zunge nach Gattungen geordnet
Leipzig: Albrecht Seemann Verlag, [1926]. With seven addenda for the years 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931–32, 1933–35, 1936–37, and 1938–39. [Scan]