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Classic Initials


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PAGEAlso on pageSoloCat or Solofont NameAlias AnalysisMatchDover CD BookComments
114Amadeus InitialsMannfred Klein's free Vaticanian Initials.Yes
Araby InitialsNo
Ballé InitialsFA143 (Pape, from Pepin Press)Yes
Bella InitialsGuinevere Caps (House of Lime) and Amadeus (Classic Font Co.) are both extremely similar, but have major differences in the details.No
Ben Franklin Initials(Linotype) renamed version of Agfa Pi & Symbols Special Alphabets P05. Appears in FontShop 1993 FontBook, page &31.Yes
Blackstone InitialsImageline Drop Caps.Yes
Bradley InitialsNoThe Bradley Initials in "Initials Bradley and Caxton Normal" font in the Dover/Solo Gothic book/CD are similar, but narrower and with an all-black background.
Caligraph (Dundee) Initialsaka Dundee & Dieter Caps. A digital version: Imageline Drop Capper. Records also indicate a re-draw by Richard Beatty?Yes
Caxton (Abbeydale) Initials"Bradley Initials and Caxton Normal" in the Solo/Dover Gothic Book/CD has this typeface in its lower case. UncialsTwo (Beatty) also has these initials in the LC. Ballade (Brendel), Joe Caxton (Mannfred Klein) and the identical Monarch (Brendel) have this same in their upper case. Initials ATF Missal Caxton (Alta Littera) has Caxton initials in the upper case, Missal Initials in the lower case.YesGOT
Danube InitialsListed in the index as appearing on this page but is not on this page by this name.
Dodge City InitialsDodge City Initials (Renn Crump), Western Sky (Font Mesa), Doughboy Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott)Yes
Dolbey InitialsImageline Jaba Caps.Yes
Dundee aka Caligraph InitsSee CalligraphYes
Engravers Initials No. 2Engraver's Initials #2 matches Scriptorium's Apollyon.Yes
Engravers Initials No. 3Avalon (SSK - is missing somedetails), Magdelena (Scriptorium - missing the same details, has a lower case)Yes
Georgian InitialsNo
Missal InitialsMissal Unciale Master (Mannfred Klein), Uncials One (Beatty - in the LC set). Initials ATF Missal Caxton (Alta Littera) has Missal Initials in the lower case, Caxton initials in the upper case.Yes
Old English Open InitsNo
Roberta InitialsEckmann (URW, Linotype), Eckmann Antique (URW), YesLooks like a bold version of Eckmann Schrift (p.46).
Roberta Initials is NOT in the index. Index has Roberta (p.45) and Roberta Outline (p. 185.
Variante Initials(Tim Ryan/TypeRevivlals, ClaudePelletier)YesClaude Pelletier's version includes lower case characters from Stradivarius.
 

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