Ye Olde Font Companie

Just found the Walden Font Company, which seems to specialize in historical recuts and associated clipart pieces. Upon viewing the PDF I found from the Civil War Collection, it seems the fonts are numbered rather than named, which I thought kinda weird. No clue about the quality of the digitization, but it appears they try to keep all the imperfections from the original sources intact.
So postmodern, yo.

Posted by Patric King | June 14, 2002 | LINK

Comments

Walden has (had?) the best font viewer yet made:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/news.asp?NID=1669

hhp

Hrant | Jun 14, 2002 02:04 PM

I bought Waldenfont's Gutenberg Press package several years ago and am quite happy with it. At the time, I couldn't find many of the designs anywhere else.

This image shows three digitizations of Rudolf Koch's Maximilian Gotisch: one by Gerhard Helzel (arguably the best), then the Walden Font version from the Gutenberg Press package, and finally the free version distributed by Dieter Steffmann. The Waldenfont version has pretty good outlines, excellent considering the price, whereas Steffmann's outlines reflect the amount of money he's making for them. Still, Dieter Steffmann does offer a number of beautiful classic fonts that no one else seems interested in digitizing.

FVL GbR and Delbanco also sell commercial-grade blackletters of a quality comparable to Helzel's. I sampled Helzel's version by zooming in on his online PDF catalog and doing a screen capture.

John Butler | Jun 15, 2002 05:38 PM

> commercial-grade blackletter

I like the sound of that.

For some reason.

hhp

Hrant | Jun 15, 2002 07:39 PM