A set of caps with hatched Egyptian top and decorated Tuscan bottom halves, c. 1850. Revived by Fonderie Typographique Française as Romantiques No. 5.
Shown in PLINC’s One Line (1971) and in the Solotype catalog (1992) as Bracelet. Mecanorma’s version was named Tuscan Ornate. [1971 ad]
Digital interpretations include Bracelet Victorian (Douglas Day, 2001. “Scanned from Tschichold’s Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering (Norton)”), JFRingmaster (Jessica Slater, 2001, clean and regularized), Romantiques (Dieter Steffmann, 2002, rough; used for sample), and Egyptienne Zierinitialen (Dieter Steffmann, 2002, different and w/o numerals). More…
A set of caps with hatched Egyptian top and decorated Tuscan bottom halves, c. 1850. Revived by Fonderie Typographique Française as Romantiques No. 5.
Shown in PLINC’s One Line (1971) and in the Solotype catalog (1992) as Bracelet. Mecanorma’s version was named Tuscan Ornate. [1971 ad]
Digital interpretations include Bracelet Victorian (Douglas Day, 2001. “Scanned from Tschichold’s Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering (Norton)”), JFRingmaster (Jessica Slater, 2001, clean and regularized), Romantiques (Dieter Steffmann, 2002, rough; used for sample), and Egyptienne Zierinitialen (Dieter Steffmann, 2002, different and w/o numerals). Main Strike (FontMesa, 2003) adds a lowercase. Dusty Circus (Baseline Fonts, 2011) is a layered interpretation.
