Digital fonts from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum collection
HWT UNIT GOTHIC
The Unit Gothic family features one of the first multi width/weight type 'systems' anticipating the Univers font system by 50 years. This HWT release is the first ever digital version of these fonts. Each font contains 600 glyphs including Greek and Cyrillic character sets as well as alternate characters which are based on the actual special character production patterns from the Hamilton Wood Type Museum collection.
HWT CATCHWORDS
Catchwords have always been offered alongside standard alphabets in wood type catalogs and so often appear on posters as a decorative punch that they have become part of the wood type vernacular. HWT Catchwords features over 80 words based directly on designs offered by Hamilton and other wood type manufacturers of the 19th and early 20th Century.
Several designs from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum collection are in the process of being made into digital fonts. Below are few of the exciting revivals from the 19th and early 20th century.
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