| PAGE | Also on page | SoloCat or Solofont Name | Alias Analysis | Match | Dover CD Book | Comments |
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| 143 | | Racer Roman | Racer (Font Company, Opti) | Yes | | |
| 143 | | Racine Roman | | No | | |
| 143 | | Radar Roman | OptiRadar, Radar(SoftUnion-with cyrillics) | Yes | | |
| 63 | | Radiant Antique | (Douglas Day) | Yes | | |
| 157 | | Radiant Series (4 variants) | Linotype sells the variants digitized by Elsner und Flake. Though clearly a digital original based on the original family design, the numerous variation | Yes | | |
| 60 | | Radio | | No | | |
| 71 | | Radiogram | | No | | |
| 23 | | Rafael | | No | | |
| 86 | | Rage Italic (2 wts) | Esselte/Letraset Rage Italic, Brendel Soubrett, Corel Rage Italic, Opti Rupert, Prima Racine. | Yes | | |
| 28 | 53 | Ragtime | | No | | A slightly bolder version of Iroquois, p.11. It's not clear whether a lower case of Ragtime existed. |
| 53 | 28 | Ragtime | | No | | This is a bolder version of Iroquois (p.11). It's not clear whether a lower case of Ragtime existed. |
| 117 | | Ragtime Stencil | | No | | |
| 76 | | Railroad Car Figures | Daylight 1937 (Benn Coifmann's Railfonts.com) | Yes | | Some minor differences |
| 76 | | Railroad Car Types (12 vars) | Some of the numbered Railroad typefaces on this page are matched by some of Benn Coifman's Railroad Fonts | Some | | The Catalog's Index only has the single entry,
"Railroad Car Types" |
| 31 | 35 | Railroad Gothic | version from Rabbit Repro (Red Rooster) re-drawn in 1999. Opti has their Opti Railroad Gothic, Linotype. | Yes | | |
| 35 | 31 | Railroad Gothic | (Linotype, Red Rooster/RabbitReproductions, Opti) | Yes | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 04 | | No, | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 06 | | No | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 07 | RailRoad Roman 3 (Benn Coifmann's Railfonts.com) | Yes | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 08 | Extra Gray (Benn Coifmann's Railfonts.com) | Yes | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 09 | | No | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 12 | RailRoad Roman 4 (Benn Coifmann's Railfonts.com) | Yes | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 13 | Zephyr (Benn Coifmann's Railfonts.com) | Yes | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 15 | | No | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 19 | | No | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 21 | | No | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 23 | | No | | |
| 76 | | Railroad No. 27 | | No | | |
| 8 | 143 | Rainbow | Bordeaux (Letraset, URW) | Yes | | Called Rainbow Roman on page 143 |
| 143 | 8 | Rainbow Roman | Bordeaux (Letraset, URW, Linotype, E&F) | Yes | | Called Rainbow on page 8 |
| 60 | | Raindrops | | No | | |
| 22 | | Rajah | URW Wood Type D (Solid) URW Wood Type D Only Shadow (shadow, no outline) | Yes | | |
| 200 | 150 | Raleigh (6 weights) | (Adobe, Bitstream, Brendel); Rally (BA, Opti); Recognita and Karoa Black (Softkey); R651 Roman and Raleigh (Softmaker). | Yes | | |
| 167 | | Raleigh Gothic | (Red Rooster, Panache, Opti) | Yes | | Some of the digital fonts include glyphs from both Raleigh Gothic AND Designer Raleigh. |
| 150 | 200 | Raleigh Roman (2 wts) | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, A&L's Rally CA (BA); Corel/Bitstream's Raleigh; Brendel's Raleigh; ClickArt's Rally (BA); Opti's Rally; SoftKey SSi's Recognita and Karoa (Blk); SoftMaker's R651 Roman and Raleigh. | Yes | | |
| 39 | | Rally Scotch | | No | | |
| 180 | | Rambler | | No | | |
| 72 | | Ramen | | No | | |
| 12 | | Randall | | No | | |
| 200 | | Range Solid | TriedWhatTheFont | No | | |
| 143 | | Ranger Roman | | No | | |
| 6 | | Ransahoff | (CastleType) | Yes | | |
| 80 | | Ransom Note | While no exact match found, there are numerous very similar faces for work-alike use. The c | Yes | | |
| 80 | | Ransom Note Reversed | Solofont included in Dover Grunge book + CD pack. | Yes | GRU | |
| 12 | | Raphael | (Adobe, Agfa); AspenFont (John Singer) | Yes | | There are some similarities between this face and Rococo on page 13. |
| 143 | | Rapid Roman | | No | | |
| 143 | | Raven Roman | | No | | |
| 8 | | Raymundo | TriedWhatTheFont | No | | |
| 7 | | Raymundo Shaded | | No | | Stong similarities to Kath Condensed Inline (FontFont) |
| 143 | | Realm Roman | | No | | |
| 23 | | Recherche | Recherche (Richard Beatty), OptiRecherche (Opti), Aridi10 | Yes | | |
| 29 | | Redwood | AIwood Barrel (Alphabets, Inc.). Also exists as Redwood - the AI font renamed by Aldus, Round RockWBW (NicksFonts), No. 154 (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
| 140 | | Reef | (Rick Mueller, Filmotype) | Yes | | |
| 143 | | Regal Roman | | No | | |
| 143 | | Regeant Roman | | No | | |
| 178 | | Regina (serif) | | No | | |
| 46 | | Regina Cursive (See Boomerang Bold) | Toffee Script (Suomi) | Yes | | |
| 103 | | Reiner Script | Ebrant Script (Make Alleda/DeNada), Coredo Script (SSK) | Yes | | |
| 77 | | Relievo | (Anon, - a very poorly scanned unedited version done with FontCreator, with ends #2 only). | Yes | | Only one variety of Relievo is shown on page 77, with three different pairs of ends. ' |
| 12 | | Renaissant | Ressonant (Octopi) | Yes | | Phillips Old Fashioned TypeBook, 1945. Possibly also in a Dover book by Kennedy(?) page 72.. Also VGC Typositor face,, and TCF (Chicago Type Foundry) |
| 7 | | Research Light | | No | | |
| 165 | | Review Gothic | Review (A&L, Bay Animation), Revue(Bitstream, Adobe, The Font Co., Linotype, Tilde), Ragtime (TypeShop, B&PGraphics) | Yes | | |
| 143 | | Rex Roman | | No | | |
| 900 | | Rhapsodie Swash Caps | Solofont included in Dover Gothic book + CD pack. | Yes | GOT | |
| 112 | | Rhapsody | Rhapsodie (Solo), (Solofont in GOT/CD pack, Profonts, Fantazia Concepts), OldCountry(SWFTE), Sparrow (Enstep/Imageline). Pompadour (Brendel). Rhapsodie Swash Caps (Solo, has Rhapsody's lower case with the Swash Caps seen here with Freehand). | Yes | GOT | All (possibly including the Solofont) have variations ranging from minor to major. Sparrow is extended. |
| 22 | | Rhett | | No | | This is the basis for Scarlett and Gone WIth the Wind. B A Graphics' "Galactic" is the same except fthat it has squared serif supports and no side bumps. |
| 32 | | Rhett Shadow | | No | | |
| 37 | | Rhoda | Rockwall NF by Nick's Fonts matches the upper case | No | | |
| 34 | | Rhodium | MPI French Antique by mpressInteractive MATCHES CAPS only | No | | |
| 51 | | Rhythm | DXS Rhythm Bold | Yes | | |
| 55 | | Rialto | | No | | This is completely different from the font also named Rialto on page 202. |
| 202 | | Rialto (roman) | (URW/TheFontCompany, Elsner&Flake), Roskell (Novell), Rossano (Opti), Roswell (Primafont), Rimini (SoftMaker), Signora.(Brendel) | Yes | | Note that this is a completely different "Rialto" from the one on page 55. |
| 77 | | Ribbonette | Aridi80 (Aridi). Bandoneon (Brendel); Heraldic (SWFTE), Ribbons (WSI). Davy's Ribbons (Rakowski), Scroll (also Rakowski, but renamed by somebody or other). | Yes | | Best of the lot is Aridi80; PretoriaGrossRibbons (Intellecta) uses a different typeface for the lettering. All the others are clones of what started out as a poor and unclear implementation. |
| 71 | | Ribbonfaced Typewriter | WSI Linenstroke. | Yes | | |
| 171 | | Ricardo's Special | | No | | |
| 178 | | Riccardo | Novel Rigamarole; SoftKey SSi Boya Display Caps; and WSI Gecko. | Yes | | Design by Richard Gerbig, 1941 |
| 143 | | Rich Roman | | No | | |
| 178 | | Richfield | | No | | |
| 127 | | Richmond (5 variants) | Rowan NF (Nick Curtis / Nick's Fonts) | Yes | | Opti had 5 wts of their Opti Richmond in their catalog. They cannot be found. |
| 34 | | Richmond Wood | Linotype Westside. | Yes | | |
| 49 | | Ricky Tick | DXS Ricky Tick | Yes | | |
| 149 | | Ridge | Denim Bold (T-26) is a slightly heavier weight. Other weights of T-26 Denim are quite different. | Yes | | |
| 24 | | Rigney | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
| 64 | | Rimmed Roman | | No | | |
| 111 | | Rimpled Text | Although it's not quite a match, Dieter Steffmann's free Rimpled Text can serve as a work-alike for this face until a better match could be found. | Yes | | Steffmann's font may have been withdrawn, Couldn't find it on the net today - Dec 2011. |
| 12 | | Ringlet | (Solo, G. Williams), Aridi09 and Ringo (Dixie) use letters from Ringlet Alternates.. | Yes | VIC | |
| 12 | | Ringlet Black | Ringlet Black (George Williams without attribution; Corrected version by MEG) | Yes | | |
| 16 | | Ringmaster | (Solo), Rochester (Gophmann) | Yes | CIR | |
| 53 | | Ringo | | No | | |
| 200 | | Rio Grande | Panache, FontHaus, Agfa. | Yes | | |
| 14 | | Ripple | | No | | |
| 156 | | Ritmo | Ritmo Bold (Linotype, Monotype Imaging, CG, Unattributed) | Yes | | Designed by Aldo Novarese as Ritmo Bold. There is no 'regular' |
| 59 | | Rivets | | No | | |
| 900 | | Riviera (not same as pg 143) | aka Rivet. Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
| 143 | | Riviera Roman | | No | | |
| 193 | | Rivington (5 weights) | Souvenir Gothic (URW), Sunset Gothic (Softmaker). Both have small differences | Yes | | |
| 123 | | Rivoli | | No | | |
| 123 | | Rivoli Initials | (Red Rooster), Koch Antiqua Zier (Steffmann), Koch Rivoli (Lohner) | Yes | | |
| 123 | | Rivoli Italic | Eva Antiqua Light Italic (Spiece) | Yes | | |
| 190 | | Robards | HFF Quick Draw | Yes | | |
| 45 | 114 | Roberta | (Harold Lohner, Ralph Unger/Profonts), | Yes | | LeGrand (Rick Mueller) varies somewhat from the catalog. Lohner's version was approved by designer Bob Trogman,Just to confuse things further Aldus renamed Mueller's LeGrand to Roberta and posted it with many other catalog matches. |
| 114 | | Roberta Initials | Eckmann (URW, Linotype), Eckmann Antique (URW), | Yes | | Looks 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. |
| 185 | | Roberta Outline | | No | | |
| 143 | | Robin Roman | | No | | |
| 144 | | Robur Black | (CanadaType), Dutch Oldstyle (Opti) | Yes | | |
| 144 | | Robur Black Condensed | | No | | |
| 144 | | Robur Black Condensed Inline | | No | | |
| 144 | | Robur Black Condensed Italic | | No | | |
| 144 | | Robur Black Inline | | No | | |
| 144 | | Robur Black Italic | (Canada Type) | Yes | | |
| 144 | | Robur Decorated (Cabaret) | See entry for Cabaret, this page. | Yes | | |
| 144 | | Robur Woodgrain | | No | | |
| 201 | | Rockwell | aka Slate. Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, Corel/Bitstream's Geomtrc Sla | Yes | | |
| 69 | | Rocky Horror | | No | | |
| 81 | | Rocky Road | | No | | |
| 49 | | Roco | aka Right ; DXS Roco (Dick Pape), Marquee Mieux Regular (IMSI), RocoOriginal(Anon - | Yes | | This is similar to, but not quite, awider version of Grock (p49). Erroneously listed as "Poco" in the catalog's index. |
| 13 | | Rococo | MardiGras(Silver Graphics), Mazarin (Scriptorium), Briolin (Gophmann) | Yes | | Silver Graphics' MardiGras was renamed by Aldus to 'Rococo'. No versions with lower case are known to exist. |
| 24 | | Rodeo | OPTIRodeo (Castcraft) | Yes | | |
| 36 | | Rodeo Condensed | Novel Mansard Block Condensed. | Yes | | |
| 38 | | Rodeo Tablet | | No | | |
| 143 | | Rodgers Roman | | No | | |
| 157 | | Rodin | | No | | |
| 46 | | Rogers | There's a high quality same-named free digital font by Eric Grunin at FontSpace. Aldus lists look-alikes. Also Rogers1 and Rogers2 by Claude Pelletier | Yes | | |
| 163 | | Rolling Extra Bold | Rolling No One Extra Bold (Steffmann, Opti), SSI Stones (Softkey) | Yes | | |
| 163 | 183 | Rolling Extra Bold Outline | | No | | |
| 183 | 163 | Rolling Extra Bold Outline | | No | | |
| 47 | | Rollo (aka Foster Gothic) | Medina (Lazy Dog Foundry) is ALMOST a match. | No | | |
| 137 | | Roman Compressed (3 variants) | (Dennis Oriz-Lopez, Opti) both match No 3 only. | Yes | | |
| 900 | | Roman Forum | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
| 132 | | Romana (7 variants) | URW++ carries several weights of this by the original name. | Yes | | |
| 187 | | Romana Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
| 13 | | Romanesque | Solofont included in Dover Victorian book + CD pack.; Durham Abbey NF (Nicks Fonts) | Yes | VIC | |
| 26 | | Romantic No. 4 | Partisan Ornamented (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | FTF Romantiques No. 4 |
| 16 | 26 | Romantic No.4 | | No | | |
| 45 | | Romany (Roman) | | No | | |
| 100 | | Romany Script | (Solo) Included in Dover Scripts book + CD pack, Apricot (CanadaType) | Yes | SCR | |
| 125 | | Romic (Bold Grayshade, Shadow, Medium Slope, Demibold Slope, Bold Slope ) | | No | | The 'slopes' may simply have been optically obliqued. |
| 125 | | Romic (Light, Light Skope = Light Italic, Medium, Demibold, Bold) | (Agfa-Monotype, Adobe, Elsner and Flake, Linotype, TheFontCompany/URW, Scangraphic) | Yes | | In most of the digital implementations cited here, the catalog's Demibold and Bold are named Bold and Extra Bold. |
| 164 | 193 | Ronda (3 weights) | Digital versions include A&L's Rondo; Brendel's POPPEA; Novel's Rondalo; Opti's Rhoda; SoftKey SSi's Serius; and SoftMaker's R791 Deco, Rochelle Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
| 193 | 164 | Ronda (3 weights) | Digital versions include A&L's Rondo; Brendel's POPPEA; Novel's Rondalo; Opti's Rhoda; SoftKey SSi's Serius; and SoftMaker's R791 Deco, Rochelle Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
| 32 | | Rondell | | No | | |
| 66 | | Rope Initials | | No | | Similar 'rope-y' font include Lariat (Dan Solo) , which is the same font as Roperbah/Reeperbahn (FontShop) and RopeMF (Mueller). LOT Lasso (Kindrick), Rodeo Roundup (FontMesa). |
| 141 | | Rose | (Filmotype) | Yes | | |
| 30 | | Rose Egyptian | | No | | |
| 17 | | Rosella | | No | | |
| 33 | | Rosemary | | No | | |
| 51 | | Rosie | | No | | |
| 193 | | Roslyn Gothic Bold | (Mecanorma, Panache, LetterPerfect), Venus Gothic Bold (Brendel),Chapell (Novel), Opti Chartes Gothic, Charley (Prima) | Yes | | |
| 193 | | Roslyn Gothic Medium | (Mecanorma, Panache) | Yes | | |
| 900 | | Rothstein Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
| 16 | | Roulette (Solid)+C210 | Roulette Caps (Opti), Wood Type (URW), Rajah (URW - this is URW Wood Type with an alterned Font Family name, and no other changes), Saloon Girl (FontMesa), | Yes | | Missing from the index. An open stenci-like version with same name is on page 22.. See page 344, American Metal Typefaces of the 20th Century by McGrew. Fonts with only minor differences include Bruce (Iza), Pointedly Mad (R.Gast, andLynchburg (FontMesa) |
| 22 | | Roulette (Stencil-like) | BJF Beacon Text Only (BJF Beacon of Light redone by MEG to eliminate lighthouses), BJF Beacon of Light (Blue Jay Fonts) has reduced-size A-Z in the lower case..BJF Merman and BJF Mermaid have full-sized outlined A-Z in the lower case. | Yes | | See Roulette, page 16 for solid versions.Without the 'stencil effect, The stroke endings are squared in the solid typeface, rounded in the stencil form. |
| 900 | | Round Black | Solofont included in Dover Moderne book + CD pack. | Yes | MOD | |
| 32 | | Round Gothic | Gotico Round (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
| 51 | | Round Rosie | | No | | |
| 98 | | Roundhand | | No | | |
| 900 | | Roundhead | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
| 31 | | Rover Boys | | No | | |
| 38 | | Roxy | Teutonic (Wooden Type Fonts), Fredericksburg NF (Nicks Fonts) | Yes | | Teutonic is a slight bit lighter. Compare with Wampum (this page and p. 24. |
| 128 | | Royal Roman | Filmotype Royal, Opti Royal | Yes | | The FilmotypeRoyal ifamily has five variants. Original design by Charles Gibbons, 1962. |
| 84 | | Roycroft | Gorilla (Bitstream, ITC, OPTI) | Yes | | |
| 81 | | Rubber Stamp Bold Cond | | No | | |
| 81 | | Rubber Stamp DeVinne | | No | | |
| 9 | | Rubens | (Solo, Wooden Type Fonts), Hamlet/Nachtwache (Brendel), Macklen (Novel), Moorgate (Softemaker), Ravenscroft (TombSweetTomb), Macbeth (Linotype), Mansion (Treehouse), DutchMaster (Silver Graphics) | Yes | VIC | Also see Rubens Wood and Wood Caps on page 39. There are natural differences between the wood versions and fhis foundry version. |
| 9 | | Rubens Extended | Aldus cites look-alikes. | Yes | | |
| 9 | | Rubens Wide Wood | Linotype Macbeth. | Yes | | |
| 39 | | Rubens Wood | Ravenscroft (TombSweetTomb)(There's clearly a family relationship with the other Rubens faces shown on page 9, though there are some minor differences. | Yes | | |
| 27 | | Ruby | | No | | |
| 141 | | Ruler | | No | | |
| 900 | | Rumpled Roman | Solofont included in Dover Grunge book + CD pack. | Yes | GRU | |
| 28 | | Runkle Roman | | No | | |
| 130 | | Rushmore | Artworld (Mecanorma) | Yes | | |
| 103 | | Rusinol | | No | | For a vaguely similar font, see Linotype's Reporter Two. Reporter by ICG is a similar font (It has the drybrush look) |
| 70 | | Russell Square | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, Brendel's ANALOG; ClickArt's Digital (ML); Image Club's original named version; and SoftKey SSi's Shoestring. | Yes | | |
| 74 | | Russian Clarendon | Petrograd (Scott Remen - 1992) | Yes | | |
| 74 | | Russian Egyptian | | No | | |
| 67 | | Rustic | RusticBlackShadow (Character), Pepin Press Caps FA204 (Dick Pape), Wood Font Four (Intellecta - has a bad 'L') | Yes | | Original design by Vincent A. Figgins (1845) |
| 34 | | Rustic Inline | | No | | |
| 67 | | Rustic Whiteshadow | Rustic (Solotype). Pinewood (Rick Mueller, Steffmann) and Woody (DincType). Pinewood is slightly darker, while Woody is darker still and doesn't have all of the punctuation. All, even the Solotype version, lack the white shadow that appears in the catalog. | Yes | SPFX | The Rustic in the Special Effects Book/CD has no shaddow effect. Note the difference in the basic typeface between Rustic Wihiteshadow and the Rustic on this same page, esp. the crossbar on the "E". |
| 113 | | Rustikalis Bold | Rustikalis DT - Bold (DTP) | Yes | | |
| 113 | | Rustikalis Modernized Gothic | Rustikalis DT - Light (DTP), Durango (Franklin Type Founders), Rathskellar (Silver Graphics), Chiselle NF (Nick's Fonts). Sample appears in Precision Type Font Reference Guide, version 5.0, pg. 130. | Yes | | |
| 113 | | Rustikalis Semibold | Rustikalis DT - Medium (DTP) | Yes | | |
| 128 | 143 | Ruth Roman | | No | | |
| 11 | | Ryan Jackson | Rye Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
