PAGE | Also on page | SoloCat or Solofont Name | Alias Analysis | Match | Dover CD Book | Comments |
202 | | Walbaum | 13 variants from SoftMaker under orig. name. SoftKey SSi also has a Walbaum. | Yes | | |
149 | 151 | Walnut | | No | | |
151 | 149 | Walnut | | No | | |
31 | | Walter Wood | | No | | |
147 | | Waltz | | No | | |
24 | 38 | Wampum | Warpath Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | Identical to Roxy (p. 38) except for clipped ends of serifs. |
38 | 24 | Wampum | Warpath Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | Identical to Roxy (p. 38) except for clipped ends of serifs. |
148 | | Wand | Filmotype Wand (Fimotype) | Yes | | Geometric Slabserif 712 (Bitstream) has similar forms but is way too tall. |
202 | | Wandsworth (Reg, Bold, Bold Cond) | Beckenham (Red Rooster, multiple wts. but no condensed). | Yes | | |
149 | | Warden | This may be simply an oblique version of Walnut | No | | |
900 | | Warehouse Gothic | Solofont included in Dover Grunge book + CD pack. | Yes | GRU | |
148 | | Waring | | No | | |
202 | | Warlock (three wieghts) | (Panache) | Yes | | |
24 | | Warlord | | No | | |
900 | | Warwick | Solofont included in Dover Celtic book + CD pack. | Yes | CEL | |
21 | | Washington Antique | Mephisto (Scriptorium), Thuvia (Omega/Michael Lee), FrightWrite2 (CompuWorks), Mortal Combat 4 (Midway Mfg), Gable Antique (Spiece Graphics - taller aspect ratio) | Yes | | This face was part of a series by Central/ATF including LaFayette (10), Jefferson and Webster. Spiece's ver matches Jefferson. Typehistorian also notes "Scriptorium Mephisto (Aldus fixes)" ? |
21 | 186 | Washington Antique Open | Wahington Antique [sic] (Aldus - an artificial modification of Scriptorium's Mephisto, misnamed) | Yes | | |
186 | 21 | Washington Antique Open | See Washington Antique Open, page 21 | Yes | | |
153 | | Washington Sans (4 wts) | Washington (URW, FontCompany) | Yes | | |
109 | | Washington Text | (Solo, Dieter Steffmann), WashingtonText (ThypeRevivals), WaltHarrington(SoftHorizons), Walthari(SSI/SSK) | Yes | GOT | |
161 | | Wasp Copperplate | | No | | |
15 | | Wave (Display) | (Solo), Wave/Waverly (Rick Mueller), Wave(Steffmann), Wavy (Fordyce) | Yes | CIR | |
161 | | Wave Copperplate | | No | | |
900 | | Webster | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
110 | | Wedding Text | Solofont included in Dover Gothic book + CD pack. There's an inexpensive commercial version called Wedding from Tom Wallace of HiH Retro Fonts at MyFonts. | Yes | GOT | |
900 | | Wedlock | Solofont included in Dover Victorian book + CD pack. Same as Cardinal in the Solotype Catalog. | Yes | VIC | |
161 | | Weigand's Ad Bold | | No | | |
86 | | Weineman Script | | No | | |
123 | 186 | Weiss Bold Outline | | No | | |
123 | | Weiss Initials I | (Opti), Wellsbrook Initials (Spiece Graphics) | Yes | | |
123 | 186 | Weiss Initials II (Lapidar) (Regular & Bold) | Opti Weiss Initials Two, Weiss Lapidar (Steffmann) | Yes | | |
123 | | Weiss Initials III | Opti Weiss Initials No. 3 | Yes | | |
161 | | Weiss Medium and Bold Gothic | | No | | |
123 | | Weiss Roman (4 variants) | Opti Weiss Roman Bold is the only member of this family in their catalog. | Yes | | |
202 | | Weissach | Sintesi (FS Design - very minor differences) | Yes | | |
900 | | Welcome | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
900 | | Wells | Iron Rider (The Fontry) | Yes | | SoloDover Victorian Display Alphabets |
25 | | Western | Filmotype Western (Filmotype) | Yes | | Prescott Plain (Page Studio Graphics) is a more condensed version. Arbor (Chester Jenkins) is identical except for degree of curvature. Fran Tique (Nicks Fonts) is almost, but not quite, identical. See also 'Barnum' and its variants for a taller slab-serif approach. |
148 | | Westgate | Opti Westgate | Yes | | |
202 | | Westin | National Gothic (OPTI); Washington (Brendel) (Note: Opti also has a font named Westin, but it doesn't match this one.) | Yes | | Originally a corporate font designed for Westinghouse |
126 | | Westminster (semiserif) | Opti Westminister Light | Yes | | |
108 | | Westminster Gothic | (Solo, in Dover/Solo Celtic Medieval/CD pack). Westminster Gotisch ( Dieter Steffmann) | Yes | CEL | |
900 | | Westmore | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
143 | | Whale Roman | | No | | |
39 | | Wharfdale | | No | | |
120 | | Wheat aka Latin Wide Italic | | No | | |
182 | | Whedon Outline | | No | | |
83 | | Whimsey | | No | | Island of Misfit Toys (Steve Ferrra/SuperCarGuy) is similar, with very different stroke widths. |
900 | | Whirligig | Solofont included in Dover Grunge book + CD pack. | Yes | GRU | |
179 | | Whistle Dropshadow | | No | | |
152 | | White Friars | Opti White Friars Bold No. 110 | Yes | | |
118 | | Whiteline Stencil | | No | | |
900 | | Whitestone Scrawl | HFF Whirly Whorl; Nick's Fonts' Whirled Peas. | Yes | | Whitestone Scrawl is in Solo's "Showcard Alphabets" |
151 | | Whitin Black (Regular) | (Solo), Opti Whitin family matches; Wichita (B&P/Softmaker) matches some weights. | Yes | | |
151 | | Whitin Black Condensed | Whitin-CondensedBlack (Claude Pelletier) | Yes | OUT | Solofont Whitin Outline included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. This could possibly be font-edited to fill in the middle and produce a narrower version. |
151 | | Whitin Black Extended | Opti Whitin family matches; their catalog says this matches another face called Wichita. | Yes | | |
161 | | Whiz Copperplate | The sample in Solocat | Yes | | |
24 | | Wigwam | | No | | |
35 | | Wilcox Initials | Shadow Lands (Nick Curtis) | Yes | | |
51 | | Wild Bill | Opti Wild Bill is a match, and their catalog says it is equivalent to another face named Wild West. | Yes | | |
171 | | Will Bold | Tried WhatTheFont | No | | |
171 | | Will Bold Open | | No | | |
171 | | Will Light | | No | | Raster (T26) has the same general style and appearance. Most letters are identical, but not all. |
202 | | Williams Sans Med | | No | | |
130 | | Willow | | No | | Natali Script (Paratype) is similar |
142 | 139 | Wilshire | | No | | |
161 | | Wilson Gothic | | No | | |
164 | | Windemere aka Ludlow Gothic | | No | | |
127 | | Windsor (7 variants) | Widely imitated for an unattributed face. Agfa & Bitstream Windsor; A&L Dictionary; Bay Animation Windz; Brendel Verona, Micrologic Prodigal; Novel Windewood; SoftKey SSi Catalego; Softmaker W730R; Swfte Buckingham, Whitehall. | Yes | | |
161 | | Windsor Gothic | | No | | |
161 | | Windsor Gothic with FX Shadow | | No | | |
127 | | Windsor Outline | (Solo, Bitstream, URW) Solofont is included in Dover Outline book + CD pack | Yes | OUT | |
53 | 59 | Wings | | No | | |
59 | 53 | Wings | | No | | |
161 | | Winter Copperplate | | No | | |
122 | | Wolf Antiqua | | No | | |
190 | | Wonderland | | No | | |
35 | | Wood Block Grotesk | | No | | |
52 | 53 | Wood Grotesk | | No | | Wood Grotesque on p 53), |
81 | | Wood Grotesk #21 | | No | | |
53 | 52 | Wood Grotesque | | No | | Wood Grotesk on p. 51 and catalog. My have been a VGC/Typositor give-away by John Schaedler |
34 | | Wood No. 2 | | No | | |
35 | | Wood No. 20 | Rosemary Condensed (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
30 | | Wood No. 47 | Antiochia Extended (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
29 | | Wood No. 6 | | No | | |
34 | | Wood No.104 | | No | | |
35 | | Wood No.16 | | No | | |
34 | | Wood No.18 | | No | | |
61 | | Wood Relief | (Susan Fleisch unattributed, GD Fonts) both free | Yes | | |
32 | | Woodboat | | No | | |
82 | | Woodcut Alphabet | Woodcut (Computer Support Corp, Arts & Letters), Houtsneeletter (Steffmann) | Yes | | Originally Houtsneeletter (1923 by Andre van der Vossen for Enschede) |
82 | | Woodcut Fineline | | No | | |
82 | 186 | Woodcut Shaded Initials | Houtsneeletter Shadow (Dieter Steffmann) | Yes | | |
186 | 82 | Woodcut Shaded Inits | Houtsneeletter Shadow (Dieter Steffmann) | Yes | | |
119 | | Woodcut Stencil | You could make Text art matching the Solocat sample from the solid version of this font using a Vector Graphic Art Editor. | Yes | | |
147 | | Woody | | No | | |
118 | | Wooky Hole | Excelsis ( Unattributed freeware), Manzanita (WSI), Farquharson (David Vereschagin, 1991) Uppercase | Yes | | Wooky Hole is a stencil version of Excelsis (p.29) |
147 | | Worcester | | No | | Slightly different from Worcester Round (p.202) |
202 | | Worcester Round (Reg, B, I, BI) | (URW++ ), Worcester (The Font Company) Both have all four varieties. | Yes | | Different than Worcester (p.147) |
81 | | Wormwood | BillyTheKid (Enstep) - the weathering differs slightly, as it does in the catalog within the same face. | Yes | | ClarendonHeavy (Wooden Type Fonts) has the same letterforms, with no lower case, but doesn't have the weathered effect as seen here.. Note that the Bitstream font of the same name is completely different. |
161 | | Wreath Copperplate | | No | | |
182 | | Wurstell Outline | | No | | |