PAGE | Also on page | SoloCat or Solofont Name | Alias Analysis | Match | Dover CD Book | Comments |
18 | | Cabalistic | Roosevelt (Harold Lohner), Cabaletta (Harold Lohner) | Yes | | Roosevelt replaced Cabaletta. There are some differences between them - including the T and t. Roosevelt includes smalll caps |
144 | | Cabaret (Robur Decorated) | (ICG, Solo) Solofont digital version included in Dover/Solofont Art Deco book/CD. Cayenne (Softmaker), CheersFive (Opti), PT Chocolate Dip (Kinghorn Company) | Yes | ADC | MyFonts offers a Solofont named Cabaret, but it is a different design than this. |
118 | | Cabaret Stencil (simplified art gothic) | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. This is a solid version of the stencil illustrated on pg. 118 of the 1992 Solocat. MyFonts describes it as an original, simplified Art Gothic style digitized in 2003 by Dan Solo. | Yes | | |
20 | | Cabinet = Caprice | Capulet Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott). The correct original name for this face is Caprice. The original Cabinet is in the catalog as Cabinet No 2, page 23. To make matters worse, G Williams digitized Cabinet No 2 and named it Caprice. | Yes | | These two BB&S faces, Cabinet and Caprice, are maybe most confusing pairs ever. It clearly stumped DXS! Printout of a page from an 1889 specimen book showing both faces is always handy for frequent reference [available on request from Type Historian]. |
23 | | Cabinet No.2 | Caprice (unattributed, by George WIlliams), Cappuccino (Bright Ideas), Aridi60. | Yes | | Original name Cabinet. See notes by Cabinet, p.20 |
90 | | Cactus | | No | | |
157 | | Cadence | | No | | |
90 | | Cadet | | No | | |
118 | | Cairo | URW ++ "Heavy Script #2 Stencil D Bold" | Yes | | |
81 | | Calamity Jane | | No | | |
70 | | Calculator (2 wts) | Opti Calculator matches Light glyph design but bold weight. | Yes | | |
184 | 47 | Calcutta | Calcutta matches Edda, Edda Text Hollow (Font Bureau). Calcutta Solid matches Edda Text Black (Font Bureau). | Yes | | |
47 | 184 | Calcutta (4 variants) | Calcutta matches Edda, Edda Text Hollow (Font Bureau). Calcutta Solid matches Edda Text Black (Font Bureau). | Yes | | |
35 | | Caldwell | | No | | |
34 | | Caldwell No.2 | | No | | |
89 | 94 | Calico | | No | | |
183 | | Calif Grotesk Out | | No | | |
36 | | Calif. Clarendon | | No | | |
155 | | California Grotesk (4 variants) | (URW) - Regular, Medium, Bold, and Black | Yes | | |
114 | | Caligraph (Dundee) Initials | aka Dundee & Dieter Caps. A digital version: Imageline Drop Capper. Records also indicate a re-draw by Richard Beatty? | Yes | | |
118 | | Calistoga | | No | | |
26 | | Calliope - Caliope | CaliopeVictorian (Douglas Day - note one-L spelling); From a scan "Victorian Display Alphabets | Yes | | Shown as Caliope (One L) in 100 Victorian Display Alphabets |
191 | | Callorte (multiple weights) | Cartel (URW), Rochester (B&P Graphics), Rillo(FontBank - Heavy=ExtraBold) | Yes | | |
66 | | Calypso Initials | CalypsoPF (PolkaDesign), Calypso (Profonts, Ralph Unger), Calypso Boy (Martin Pfeiffer),Stiletto Silver (Rafael Dinner - lines instead of dots). Original design was by Roger Excoffon in 1958 | Yes | | CalypsoPF is an excellent version. Others shown here include a solid version, Calypso Black was made by Rafael Dinner. |
900 | | Camden Text | Solofont included in Dover Celtic book + CD pack. | Yes | CEL | |
33 | | Camelia Wood | | No | | |
17 | | Cameo Antique | Cameo Antique (Character) | Yes | | Same design as Nightshade (this page), as an outline with the same shadows. |
90 | | Cameo Casual (Rg & OS) | | No | | |
77 | | Camille | | No | | |
75 | 77 | Campaign | (Solo). Included in earlier edition of Dover/Solo Special Effects pack. Not included in pack dated 2000. | Yes | SPFX | |
77 | 75 | Campaign | (Solo). Included in earlier edition of Dover/Solo Special Effects pack. Not included in pack dated 2000. | Yes | SPFX | |
10 | | Campanili [sic] - Campanile | Campanile (Solofont, OPTI, Steffmann), Aridi70,Jugend (Walden), VIctoriana (Gophmann), Campanili (?) | Yes | VIC | Campanile in index, Victorian Display Fonts, and everywhere else. |
67 | | Campfire | Dieter Steffmann's free "Logger." A version re-drawn by David Rakowski. Also WSI "Logs Display Caps." | Yes | | |
89 | | Canary | | No | | |
900 | | Cancelleresca Script | Solofont included in Dover Scripts book + CD pack. | Yes | SCR | |
89 | | Candid | Candid Ballpoint (OPTI) | Yes | | |
195 | | Candida | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, Corel/Bitstream's Candida; SoftKey SSi's Matique; SoftMaker's Canyon and Quantity (included stencil). | Yes | | |
900 | | Candlemas | Solofont included in Dover Calligraphic book + CD pack. | Yes | CAL | |
66 | | Candy Cane | | No | | |
90 | | Cane (handletter) | | No | | |
26 | | Cane Gothic | | No | | |
22 | | Canterbury Initials | GillFloriatedCaps (Monotype/Adobe). ALso an ALT(ernate) with only 7 letters (EFHSTWY) | Yes | | From a 1935 Eric Gill Design. There are unattributed fonts with similar names, some with different alternate glyphs. |
70 | | Capacitor | | No | | |
49 | | Capitol | Solofont included in Dover Moderne book + CD pack. | Yes | MOD | |
164 | | Capone Light | Solofont digital version included in Dover/Solofont Art Deco book + CD pack. Bellarose(James Harris) | Yes | ADC | |
90 | | Capri | | No | | |
89 | | Caravan | | No | | |
900 | | Caravelle Condensed | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
39 | | Carboy Bold | | No | | |
89 | | Card Casual | | No | | |
900 | | Cardigan | Solofont included in Dover Calligraphic book + CD pack. | Yes | CAL | |
11 | | Cardinal | Wedlock (Dan Solo); Dieter Steffman added characters to a face prepared from a scan by Aldus. The free face is at TypOasis in the Steffmann section under the original name, Cardinal. | Yes | VIC (As Wedlock) | Cardinal and Wedlock/Cardinal Swash are alternate forms of each other. 1887 and DXS/Dover Victorian Book specimens illustrate the full range. |
119 | | Caren Stencil | Camera Stencil (Type Revivals), Stencil Camera ( unattributed freeware( | Yes | | |
89 | | Cargo Brush | | No | | |
26 | | Carillon Condensed | Trefoil (Paul Lloyd), Purcell (Scriptorium) is same design but a bit wider, probably represents the before-condensed version. (When you're using type, many graphic programs will let you squeeze selected type elements to a narrower appearance.) | Yes | | |
128 | | Carleton (Ehmke) | Ehmcke (HoeflerTypeFoundry) | Yes | | Solo catalog has Ehmcke misspelled as Ehmke |
50 | | Carlotta | | No | | |
46 | | Carmen | (Solotype, Dieter Steffmann, George Williams) Edel Gotische (HiH Retrofonts). Original, 1900 by Georg Fleischmann, was name Edel Gotische | Yes | ANV | Carmen Caps (Harold Lohner) and Edel Gotische Initialen (HiH Retrofonts) are ornate sets of initials incorporating this typeface. Original design by Otto Eckmann, 1900 |
90 | | Carmen Handletter | Flimotype Carmen | Yes | | |
37 | | Carnation Wood | | No | | |
900 | | Carnet | Solofont included in Dover Calligraphic book + CD pack. | Yes | CAL | |
33 | | Carnival | (Solo), Zebrawood (Adobe), Dolphin (Expressiv - in Photolettering collection), Dorothy (FontBank). Aka Romantiques #2 (?) | Yes | CIR 2001 bbut not in CIR 2008 | FTF Romaniques No. 2; Solofont included in 2001 Dover Circus book + CD pack; not listed in 2008. Possible elimination or name change? |
30 | | Carnival Open | Dorothy Shadow (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott), Rick Mueller calls his free version of this face "Carnival MF Open Shadow." Although his Carnival Rimmed is NOT a mtach for Solo' | Yes | | Mueller's font pair may be matched for multi-color printing outline and fill) |
90 | | Carolina Brush | Digital versions include Brendel's COLONIAL BRUSH; Novel's Carpens; Opti's Carolina Brush; and Prima's Carteret. | Yes | | |
113 | | Carolus Codex | Did Dan Solo r/d as Carnet for a Dover pack? | Yes | | |
190 | | Carolus Medium | | No | | |
900 | | Carolus Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
190 | | Carolus Roman | (ImageClub), Carla (BayAnimation), Carleton (Corel/Bitstream), Caremtol OR Cactum (Prima'), MF C653 Deco (Softmaker). California 2 & 5 (Cambridge Fontworks) are clones, as is a widely available anonymous Carolus Roman. | Yes | | |
96 | | Carpenter (Script) | Solofont included in Dover Scripts book + CD pack. Offered under orig. name by Image Club & FontHaus. Brendel Julia & Novel Carlotta. Opti Carmella. | Yes | SCR | |
39 | | Carter Egyptian Extra Condensed | | No | | Nostrand JNL (Jeff Levine) is somewhat more condensed, otherwise a good match. |
39 | | Carter Eqyptian Bold Condensed | Antique Condensed Regular (Wooden Type Fonts) , Egyptienne Cond Medium (URW), Outlaw Bold (TypeArt) | Yes | | |
186 | | Cartoon Bd Shade C | | No | | Create text art with solid fonts in Vector Graphic Illustration programs. |
80 | | Cartoon Bold C | Cartoon Bold (ICG, Opti), Cancun (Bitstream/Corel), Candide (Bay Animation), Caricature (FontBank),Gizmo (SSI/SSK), Firestorm (Brendel), CacReg (Prima) | Yes | | Cancun has been renamed to Cartoon Bold and can also be found that way. |
80 | | Cartoon Bold Shaded C | | No | | |
75 | | Cartoon Bunting Narrow | Cartoon Bunting Narrow (Character) | Yes | | |
75 | | Cartoon Bunting Wide | Free 'Bodie MF Flag' (Rick Mueller). | Yes | | |
80 | | Cartoon C | | No | | By Howard Allen Trafton, 1936. Only the bold version is known to be digitized. |
69 | | Cartoon Ghost (4 variants) | | No | | |
61 | | Cartoon Holly Days | Bodie MF Holly (Rick Mueller), Amigo (Enstep) | Yes | | This is a decorated version of Bodie Bounce Open (P. 78) |
61 | | Cartoon Mexicana | | No | | |
61 | | Cartoon Party Time | (Tim Ryan/Agfa Type Revivals - aka Cartoon Party Caps) ; Chartreuse Parsons (Soft Horizons); Jubilee (Bright Ideas); PartyByTom (TomBrown/AwesomeClipartForKids). | Yes | | Jubilee has a lower case in the same style. PartyByTom duplicates the upper case in the lower case. The others have solid black caps in the lower case. Ryan's has some mixed solid and decorated punctuattion. |
61 | | Cartoon Snowcap (4 vars) | | No | | |
61 | | Cartoon Teepee | Easter Fun (TomBrown/AwesomeClipartForKids) | Yes | | |
61 | | Cartoon Teepee (condensed, open, open condensed) | | No | | |
25 | | Cartwright | | No | | |
191 | | Casablanca | Casablanca family (ITF/RedRooster by Adrian Williams, TheFontCompany/URW++). CASSIUS (Brendel); CinCin (Novel); Civet Light(Opti); Clarksville (Prima). There's also an ITF/Red Rooster version by Adrian Williams. | Yes | | Original design (c. 1940) by Carlos Winkow for the Spanish foundry, "Nacional". |
164 | | Casablanca Light Condensed | Casablanca Light Condensed (TheFontCompany,URW++,), HFF Ice Bergman (HFF) | Yes | | RedRooster/ITF has multiple weights of Casablanca, but not condensed. |
164 | | Casablanca Medium Condensed | CasablancaMdmCondensed (TheFontCompany,URW++) | Yes | | RedRooster/ITF has multiple weights of Casablanca, but not condensed. |
102 | | Cascade | (Adobe/Linotype, Qualitype), Castile (Solo- included in Dover Bold Script book/CD), Freehand 471 (Bitstream), Castanet (Corel), Cassia (WSI), Ole Script (SSI), Apache (Brendel), Quiberon (Brendel) | Yes | BOS | Design by Matthew Catter, 1966 |
142 | | Caslon 224 | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name; Corel/Bitstream's Caslon 224, ITC; and SoftMaker's C790 Roman 8 and Caslon 18. | Yes | | |
142 | | Caslon 3 & 540 | Adobe sells this pair as a family; Corel/Bitstream offer a version; Agfa has an original in the Print Artist bundle; and SoftMaker provides Caslon Elegant. | Yes | | |
142 | | Caslon 471 | FE suggests Headliners Caslon Display Bold will do as a near-look-alike until a better match comes along. (Note to self: what Caslon is that in the illustration? I used it to get the match. The Solosample had some much finer lines in it.) | Yes | | |
142 | | Caslon 471 Italic Swash | Caslon Pro Italic (Adobe - full alphabet, UC swashes only), Caslon Initials (unattributed, uppercase only, some alternates), AUCaslonSwash (Auras-many swash alternates), Amercan Caslon Italic with Swash (Opti) includes swash 'v' and 'w' with some upper case swash letters. CaslonFiveSwash (Opti) adds 'z' and more alternate swashes. Caslon Alternate Italic (SSI/SSK) has only swash 'v' and 'w' and a few ligatures. | Yes | | |
142 | | Caslon 540 (Rg & It) | Adobe, Agfa, Bitstream, Corel all offer a version under original name. SoftMaker offers Caslon Elegant. | Yes | | |
142 | | Caslon Ad Bold | Casad (Brendel - 6 variants), Dendros (Softkey/SSi - Extra Bold), GT=CaslonAdBold (Abdul) | Yes | | |
85 | | Caslon Antique | (Font Company, Agfa, URW, Elsner&Flake, Mecanorma), CasablancaAntique (Bitstream/Corel). | Yes | | designed by Berne Nadall 1894, first sold as Fourteenth Century[!], changed to Fifteenth Century in 1897, then Caslon Antique in 1918 |
142 | | Caslon Bold Condensed | Font Bureau offers a version by Jill Pichotta under the original name. | Yes | | |
8 | | Caslon Extra Condensed | Caslon RR Extra Condensed (Red Rooster) | Yes | | |
8 | | Caslon Extra Condensed Swash | | No | | |
142 | | Caslon NOC (4 variants) | | No | | ? |
142 | | Caslon Oldface | Opti Caslon Old Face | Yes | | |
142 | | Caslon Open Face | (Bitstream, Linotype, Adobe) | Yes | | |
142 | | Caslon Shaded | | No | | "Creative Review", April, 2010, says that they used Caslon Shaded and that "more faces would be available in the future". But no digitized font reference had been found. |
8 | | Caslon Super Condensed | | No | | May have been an offered optical effect. Letraset's Bordeaux Bold is identical EXCEPT for the shapes of the lower case serifs. |
103 | | Cassandra | | No | | |
90 | | Cast | Boris (Panache) | Yes | | |
50 | | Castaway | Stowaway (Rick Mueller). Stowaway has been re-configured as Castaway(anon) and CassTaylor (Soft Horizons) | Yes | | |
179 | | Castellar | | No | | |
20 | | Castle (Rg & Wd) | Castle (Opti) | Yes | | |
109 | | Castlemar | Solofont included in Dover Gothic book + CD pack. Also Imageline Old Style. | Yes | GOT | |
179 | | Castor | | No | | |
32 | | Caswell Condensed | | No | | |
72 | | Cathay | | No | | |
900 | | Cathedral | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
21 | | Cavalcade | Solofont included in Dover Circus book + CD pack. | Yes | CIR | |
195 | | Caxton | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, A&L's Clayton (BA); Corel/Bitstream's Caxton; ClickArt's Clayton (BA); and SoftKey SSi's Grammateus. Also original versions by Letraset and EMS Electric Alphabet. | Yes | | |
114 | | 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. | Yes | GOT | |
110 | | Caxton Text | | No | | |
17 | | Caxtonian | Gold Fever (Font Mesa) | Yes | | |
111 | | Celebration Text Fancy | (Solo), Aridi26. Uechi Gothic(Rakowski) | Yes | GOT | Aridi 32and Aridi33 have the same lowercase, with different fancy upper cases.. In Solo 100 Gothic Alphabets, Innsbruck has the same lower case, different caps. |
900 | | Celebration Text Plain/Normal | Not in Catalog. Dan Solo version available. A version with this lowercase but more elaborate caps appears on Solocat pg. 111. | Yes | | |
111 | | Celebration( Caps) | SoftKey SSi Aeterna Caps (SoftKeySSI), Brussels Titling Caps (WSI/IMSI). These two fonts are all Caps only, even though the Solocat face illustrated has a lowercase, which is the same lower case shown as Testimonial Text (this page). See record for Celebration Text Plain/Normal for font with the lower case but with different caps. | Yes | | |
124 | 195 | Centaur | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, A&L's Viviene (BA ); Corel/Bitstream's Venetian 301; Brendel's ARMAND and Marcel; ClickArt's Viviene (BA); and Opti's Centaur and Cuba Libre. Also Lanston Metropolitan. | Yes | | Omitted from the Solotype index pages |
195 | 124 | Centaur (four weights) | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, A&L's Viviene (BA ); Corel/Bitstream's Venetian 301; Brendel's ARMAND and Marcel; ClickArt's Viviene (BA); and Opti's Centaur and Cuba Libre. Also Lanston Metropolitan. | Yes | | |
124 | | Centaur Italic (Arrighi) | MT, Ber, & Adobe. Bitstream/Corel Venetian 301; Viviene BA; and Opti Centaur and Cuba Libre. | Yes | | |
900 | | Centennial | (Solo) | Yes | CIR | A wood-type font. |
97 | | Centennial Script Fancy | (Solotype, Intellecta Design), Agate (Enstep - upper case only) | Yes | | Not in solocat index. Intellecta adds an open version and unshaded glyphs. |
97 | | Centennial Script Plain | (Solotype, CanadaType); Centennial Script Easy (Intellecta) | Yes | | Canada Type adds a set of alternate glyphs, as well as a Pro version that combines both. |
130 | | Century Bold, Bold Condensed | (Adobe, Bitstream, Linotype, URW, and more) | Yes | | |
10 | | Century Boston | Beantown Bounce (Nick Curtis) | Yes | | |
130 | | Century Expanded, Century Expanded Italic | (Adobe, Bitstream, Linotype, URW, and more). | Yes | | |
62 | | Century Litho Shade | | No | | |
130 | | Century Schoolbook, Italic, Bold, Black, and Bold Extended | (Adobe, Bitstream, Linotype, URW, and more). SoftMaker Modern Century. | Yes | | Also, New Century Schoolbook families from multiple vendors |
8 | | Century Ten | No like-named face this narrow in 1993 FontBook, Precision Type Font Reference Guide 5.0, or LT Font Explorer 1.5. FE matches it mos | Yes | | |
63 | | Certificate (2 variants) | | No | | |
900 | | Certificate Normal | Solofont included in Dover Calligraphic book + CD pack. | Yes | CAL | |
900 | | Certificate Script | Solofont included in Dover Scripts book + CD pack. | Yes | SCR | |
900 | | Certificate Script | aka Hogarth Script. Digital versions include Corel/Bitstream's English 157; ;Agfa's original in the Print Artist bundle; and SoftMaker's Hobson. Also from URW; Dover/Solo; and E+F Bronze. | Yes | | |
900 | | Certificatext | Solofont included in Dover Calligraphic book + CD pack. | Yes | CAL | |
31 | | Chabot | | No | | |
121 | | Chagall Latin | | No | | |
66 | | Chains | | No | | The font is by Jean Larcher Published in printed form in "Fantastic Alphabets" (Dover Pictorial Archives) 1976 |
110 | | Chalet Text | Imageline Johnson Text. aka Tampico | Yes | | |
85 | | Chalk Roman | Appears in Dover/Solo Rustic Alphabets book | No | | |
82 | | Chalkboard Block | Chalkboard (Traitor Vic) | Yes | | Traitor Vic's fonts have no internal attribution. They appear to be anonymous. |
10 | | Champion (display) | | No | | |
99 | | Champion Script | Berthold Champion, Opti Champion Script | Yes | | 1957 Berthold design by GG Lange per Jaspert's book. |
58 | | Chancel Mod | | No | | |
113 | | Chanceleresca Bastarda | | No | | |
46 | | Chantry | | No | | The catalog index indicates that Chantry is also on page 23. It is not. |
900 | | Chappel Text | Solofont included in Dover Celtic book + CD pack. Chapterhouse Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | CEL | |
100 | | Charcoal | | No | | |
117 | | Charette (Europa Bold Stencil) | Jeanneret NF (NicksFonts) | Yes | | |
168 | | Charger (4 variants) | DXS Charger | Yes | | |
183 | | Charger Outline | | No | | |
124 | | Charlemange (2 wts) | Charlemagne (Adobe-full family) | Yes | | |
46 | | Charleston | Charleston (Character - revision of an earlier anonymously scanned version of he same name) | Yes | | |
99 | | Charme | (Adobe, Image Club, Linotype), Airfoil *SSI/SSK), Scheherezade (SWFTE), | Yes | | Slogan (Monotype, URW, Publishers Paradise) and Memo Script (SSI/SSK) are almost identical, with some different upper case glyps. |
177 | | Charter Oak | Digital versions include Brendel's AIRLINE; Novel's Chatten; Opti's Charter Oak; and Prima's Charvoix. | Yes | | |
64 | | Charter Roman | | No | | |
12 | | Chaucer (display) | Paddy Wagon (Nick Curtis) | Yes | | |
110 | | Chaucer Text (penletter) | | No | | |
30 | | Cheapjack | | No | | |
90 | | Checker | | No | | |
51 | 160 | Checkmate | DXS Checkmate (DickPape), Chisel (WSI), Bordon(Instant Artists Users Club, Inc), Cornered (B&P), Kasparov (Silver Graphics) | Yes | | |
160 | 51 | Checkmate | DXS Checkmate (DickPape), Chisel (WSI), Bordon(Instant Artists Users Club, Inc), Cornered (B&P), Kasparov (Silver Graphics) | Yes | | |
152 | | Cheltenham (11 variants) | Widely available: Adobe, ITC, Bitstream, Berthold, Elsner and Flake, Agfa/Monotype, and more. Cheltenham and Cheltenham Old Style from Agfa, SoftMaker, and Opti are largely similar. ITC Cheltenham is widely available, but really a different design, narrower and simpler letters, higher x-height. The ITC Cheltenham is not in the Solocat. | Yes | | |
152 | | Cheltenham Old Style | SoftMaker, Elsner and Flake, and URW offer versions. | Yes | | |
187 | | Cheltenham Outline (3 vars) | | No | | |
38 | | Cheops Wood | | No | | |
62 | | Cheque | | No | | |
128 | | Chesterfield | (Linotype), ChesterfieldAntiqueD (URW), ChesterfieldD and DEE (URW), (Anon-from trace) , Chelsea (Steffmann, OPTI) | Yes | | |
900 | | Chesty | Solofont included in Dover Moderne book + CD pack. | Yes | MOD | |
900 | | Cheval | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
113 | | Chevalier | ~~(B&PGraphics, Brendel), C720 Deco (Softmaker), Marmyadose (Scriptorium), ChasThird (SoftHorizons). Blarney (Fontbank), Crespi (Opti), Antigone (Silver Graphics) | Yes | | Original design by Emil Newkomm for Haas. Formatt had a dry transfer named Chivalry. |
151 | | Cheviot | | No | | |
55 | | Chic | (Solo), CG Chic (Agfa/Monotype). Others possible, too. | Yes | ADC | Odalisque (Nick Curtis) is a solid version, except for a few characters. |
28 | 37 | Chickamauga | OPTIMorgan-Two, Gotico Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
37 | 28 | Chickamauga | OPTIMorgan-Two, Gotico Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
44 | | Childs | Solofont digital pay version included in Dover/Solofont Art Nouveau book + CD pack. FontShop 1993 FontBook p. C-29 carries a Richard Beatty pay version. | Yes | ANV | |
72 | | Chin Chin | | No | | |
83 | | China Brush | | No | | |
72 | | Chinatown | (Solotype), Chinatown II (Traitor Vic) | Yes | SPFX | |
74 | | Chippendale | | No | | |
120 | | Chisel | Digital versions include A&L's Handtooled (1 free dl); Corel | Yes | | |
151 | | Chiswell | | No | | Egyptian Wide Bold (Wooden Type Fonts) is similar. |
50 | | Chloris | | No | | |
100 | | Choc | (Linotype, Letraset, ITC), Cocoa (Arts & Letters/Bay Animation/Computer Support);+ Ninja (Bay Animation),)Staccato 555 (Bitstream, Tilde) Acapulco (Brendel), Olivette (Novel), Marker Board (SSI/SSK), SoftKey Chandler (SoftMaker), Chokko (WSI), | Yes | | Fonts that show an Arts & Letters copyright are re-branded Bay Animation fonts. Ninja and Cocoa are identical. |
97 | | Chopin | Chopin Script (Claude Pelletier), ChaseCallas (SH), Chiaroscuro (SvG), Polonaise (FC, URW ), Polonaise Bold (FC), OptiPicturesqueScript, dozens more copies and clones | Yes | | The catalog shows some associated ornaments; these don't appear in any of the digitizations. Font Company's Polonaise Bold is NOT bold, but contains a set of alternate glyphs. URW seems to have dropped the 'normal' font when it inherited the Font Company, and offers only the Bold-Alternate version, labeled simply Bold. |
72 | | Chopstick | aka Chopstick and Rickshaw. Digital versions include Brendel's HALIFAX; Novel's Penki; and Swfte's Chopstix. and Nixon in China?! | Yes | | |
16 | | Chorus Girl | Solofont included in Dover Victorian book + CD pack. | Yes | VIC | |
70 | | Chromium One | Letraset et al. | Yes | | |
19 | | Chronicle | | No | | |
163 | | Chubby | Bumblebee (Brendel - also Open), Gumbo (A&L) | Yes | | |
111 | | Church Text | Solofont included in Dover Gothic book + CD pack.\, Aridi28 | Yes | GOT | HypoTypo created some variants including shaded and a multi-duplicated version style-named 'Replicant' |
110 | | Church Text ATF | | No | | |
58 | | Churchward Brush | Agfa offers Churchward in Print Artist bundle; SoftMaker has Jospehs Brush. URW++ under original name. | Yes | | |
900 | | Cigar Label | Included in Dover/Solo Special Effects pack. Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | SPFX | |
101 | | Cigno | Cigno (Rick Mueller, P22) | Yes | | Design by Aldo Novarese, 1954 |
900 | | Cimbrian | Solofont included in Dover Celtic book + CD pack. | Yes | CEL | |
900 | | Cinderella | Solofont included in Dover Circus book + CD pack. | Yes | CIR | |
900 | | Cinderella (narrow hi-x ssrf) | Incl. in Dover Circus Book + CD pack. | Yes | CIR | |
26 | | Cinderella Text | Ruritania (Paul Lloyd) | Yes | | |
900 | | Circlet | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. Has bad encoding. "Corrected by elves" version also available. | Yes | | |
98 | | Circular Cursive | | No | | |
17 | | Circus (Rome) | (Angst), Madame Letters (Linotype), Gille Classic (Font Mesa), Home Style (Font Mesa - with lower case) | Yes | | |
50 | | Circus Wagon | Eckhardt Informal JNL (Jeff Levine) | Yes | | |
900 | | CircusTime | Solofont included in Dover Circus book + CD pack. | Yes | CIR | |
900 | | Circustime Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
169 | | Cirkulus | Corel Circle, Agfa Circled; SoftMaker Cycle; and WSI Debevec Circular. | Yes | | |
34 | 25 | Cirque | | No | | |
12 | | Cirrous | Acadian (Scriptorium - a few glyph differences) | Yes | | Many similarities to Bijou (this page) |
147 | | City (5 variants) | Berthold & Adobe City. Bitstream Square Slabserif 711; Brendel Cyprus; Image Club Civic; Novel Circuit; Opti Cirrus , SoftMaker Centrum, Swfte Center City; WSI Civic; et al. | Yes | | |
183 | | City Bold Outline | | No | | |
72 | | Civilite | (Tim Ryan/Type Revivals), Olivia (Brendel), Spanish Court Hand (Walden), Civi Regular (Stephen Moye) | Yes | | |
149 | | Clarendon | Many look-alikes. Digital versions include A&L's | Yes | | |
196 | 149 | Clarendon | Many look-alikes. Digital versions include A&L's C | Yes | | |
149 | | Clarendon Bold (Haas) | | No | | |
149 | | Clarendon Contour | | No | | |
149 | | Clarendon Heavy | Clickart Cerebral (Micrologic). | Yes | | No sample in catalog |
149 | | Clarendon Light (Haas) | | No | | |
149 | | Clarendon Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | No sample in catalog |
149 | | Clarendon Special | | No | | |
152 | 149 | Clarendon Special | | No | | |
18 | | Claret | | No | | |
195 | | Claridge (multiple weights) | (Monotype Imaging), Celeste (FontFont) | Yes | | The Monotype fonts are a re-issue of what were originally CGClaridge from Compugraphics. |
196 | | Clarion (Five weights) | | No | | |
33 | | Classic Pointing Fists | Hands (ArchiveType - has all of these and more), Mesa Point (FontMesa - some the same plus others) | Yes | | |
118 | | Classic Stencil | | No | | |
135 | | Clearface | Digital versions include Brendel's Clearface; Opti's Clearface; Prima's CLI 8; SoftKey SSi's Clearface; SoftMaker's Clearface and Old Style; Swfte's Oxford; and WSI's Styled Roman. | Yes | | |
157 | | Clearface Gothic | (Adobe, Linotype, Berthold, Elsner & Flake, URW, Opti). ; Claritan (Novel), Cleargothic (Brendel/Softmaker), Clearly Gothic (WSI) | Yes | | |
185 | | Clearface Gothic Outline | (Softmaker) | Yes | | |
187 | | Clearface Rom XB Out | | No | | |
21 | | Cleft Gothic | | No | | |
27 | | Clementine | Adobe & Lino Juniper; BA June @ A&L (4) & ClickArt (6); Brendel Lanzarot; Corel Jupiter; EFF Lipa; Prima Jup Reg; and SoftKey SSi Hubbub. aka California Caps, Paymaster Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
42 | | Cleopatra | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
121 | | Clipper Latin (CD & EXTD) | | No | | |
110 | | Cloister Black | Midevil [sic] (Bay Animation), Corel/Bitstream's Cloister-Black & Open Face; and Swfte's Manuscript. | Yes | | |
110 | | Cloister Black Condensed | Digital versions include Victorian (MicroLogic); Corel/Bitstream's Cloist | Yes | | |
124 | | Cloister Bold (3 vars) | | No | | |
124 | | Cloister Curs. HT | | No | | |
124 | | Cloister Oldstyle | | No | | |
202 | | Clova | TriedWhatTheFont | No | | |
28 | | Clown Alley | Clarence Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
78 | | Clown Around (2 vars) | | No | | |
49 | | Clyde | Solofont digital version included in Dover/Solofont Art Deco book + CD pack. | Yes | ADC | |
24 | | Coachline | Peerless 131 Bold (WoodenTypeFonts) | Yes | | Coachline is identical to Page Peerless Antique on page 29. |
196 | | Cochin (5 varieties) | (Adobe, Agfa), LeCochin BQ (Berthold), Engravers Oldstyle 205 (Bitstream), Cochin 61 (Bitstream), Collage (Miles, Inc.) | Yes | | Moveable type also known as Sonderdruck. Note that this has no relationship with "NicholasCochin" on page 84. |
15 | | Cocktail | Cocksure Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
94 | 90 | Cocoa | (Keystrokes) | Yes | | |
90 | 94 | Cocoa Medium | (Keystrokes) | Yes | | |
113 | | Codex | (Linotype), Calli 109 (Bay Animation); Calligraphic 421 (Bitstream), Klaxon (WSI) | Yes | | |
36 | | Coffee Can Initials | Rosewood (Adobe), Gold Rush (Swfte), Mackinaw Display Caps (WSI), CoffeeCamus (Soft Horizons). Coffee Tin Initials (Rick Mueller) | Yes | | Shown in 100 Victorian Display Fonts simply as Coffee Can |
900 | | Cognac | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
900 | | Colchester Black | Solofont included in Dover Celtic book + CD pack. | Yes | CEL | |
85 | | Colonial Dame | Might be possible to create variants from Solofont included in Dover Special Effects Book + CD pack. | Yes | SPFX | |
55 | | Colorama | | No | | |
44 | | Columbus | (Sam Wang, Brendel/B&PGraphics), Wedgewood (Brendel), Deneane (FontBank), Cowan (Opti), C790 Deco (Softmaker), Tringle (WSI), Jazzy 50 (Fantazia), Beaumarchais (Scriptorium) | Yes | | Tom Phinney is developing a high-quality version named Cristoforo.Original design is by Ihlenberg, 1892. |
44 | | Columbus Initials | | No | | |
44 | 185 | Columbus Outline | | No | | |
185 | 44 | Columbus Outline | | No | | |
202 | | Column | Column Book (ClubType/Monotype Imaging), Clois Old Style (Scangraphic, Elsner & Flake), | Yes | | |
123 | 186 | Columna Open | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
186 | 123 | Columna Open | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
123 | | Columna Solid | (Agfa, URW, Opti). LaserMaster once distributed a free sample by the original name. LM was an early (c.1989) maker of printers and their own sclalable font software. | Yes | | |
129 | | Colwell Handletter | Colwell (Fleisch/ApostrophicLabs, HPLHS) | Yes | | |
129 | | Colwell Handletter Italic | Colwell Italic (HPLHS) | Yes | | |
202 | | Comenius (Antiqua) | (Berthold, Adobe), SoftMaker C792 Roman. | Yes | | Original by Herman Zapf 1980 |
90 | | Comet Slope | Britches (Panache) | Yes | | |
78 | | Comic Book | | No | | |
119 | | Commerce Stencil | | No | | |
96 | | Commercial Script | Solofont included in Dover Scripts book + CD pack. Also available under orig name from Bitstream, Corel, Opti, and SoftMaker. Print Artist bundles an Agfa version. Novel Coleridge, Prima Covinton, & SoftKey SSi Journal Script. | Yes | SCR | |
9 | | Commonwealth | Communis (The Type Heritage Project - Roger Seganti) | Yes | | |
57 | | Company | | No | | |
100 | | Compliment | (Profonts), New Day MF (Rick Mueller), Mineola Script (SSI). Kompliment (maybe de Groot) | Yes | | |
179 | | Comstock (2 vars) | | No | | |
9 | | Concave | Gladiate (Solo, lighter than catalog sample); | Yes | | Sulphur Springs NF (Nick Curtis) is a 'stencil' version of Concave. |
9 | | Concave Condensed | Arched Gothic Condensed (Spiece Graphics) | Yes | | |
9 | | Concave Extended | (Solotype) | Yes | | |
9 | | Concave Extra Condensed | | No | | |
118 | | Concave Stencil | Sulphur Springs Medium (Nick Curtis) | Yes | | |
133 | | Concorde | Digital versions include Corel/Bitstream's Dutch 809; SoftKey SSi's Informatics; and SoftMaker's C791 Roman and Concept. | Yes | | |
112 | | Concordia Text | Concordia-Text (ImageLine), Classical Regular (ImageLine), Aridi04, Louvaine (PJLloyd) | Yes | | It's unknown whether one of the ImageLine fonts was renamed by them or someone else. |
900 | | Coney Island | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
67 | | Confucius | (Traitor Vic - no internal attribution), Castaway Bamboo (Rotodesign/Daniel Broderick), Bamboo (Anon.) | Yes | | |
90 | | Conga | | No | | |
12 | | Congress (display) | Carsage (Opti), Filibuster (Nick Curtis - most glyphs identical, but not all). | Yes | | |
196 | | Congress (semislab) | Digital versions include Brendel's Congress; Opti's Congress, Counsel, or Counsil; SoftMaker's Congress; and WSI's SENATE. | Yes | | |
149 | | Consort (2 wts) | Full family of condensed versions available from RedRooster | No | | |
43 | | Constantia | Carlingtown Gold Bold (RedRooster/Typefounders) | Yes | | Carlingtown Silver Light is somewhat lighter, both have some minor character shape differences. |
102 | | Contact | Bruschetta (Canada Type), Casual Contact MF(Rick Mueller) Bruschetta. | Yes | | |
151 | | Contact (Classic) Bold Condensed | Digital versions include Brendel's Colonel; Novel's Cohesion; Opti's Contact BCD; Prima's Conneaut; SoftKey SSi's Interese Display (bold); SoftMaker's Colonel; and WSI's MARLBORO. | Yes | | |
191 | | Continental | (URW++ - several weights) | Yes | | |
109 | | Continental Text | | No | | |
182 | | Contour Gothic No. 1 | | No | | |
900 | | Contract Banner | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
161 | | Contrary Bold | | No | | |
179 | | Contura | | No | | |
190 | | Conway | (Solotype), Twitty Bird (Nick Curtis), Showboat (CanadaType). | Yes | SCR | |
28 | | Cooktent | Woodtype 515 (Intellecta), Number 515 (Wooden Type Fonts), Clarence Dotted (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott), Page Five Fifteen NF (Nick's Fonts) | Yes | | |
900 | | Cool Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
144 | | Cooper Black | aka Poster Black. Widely avail | Yes | | |
187 | | Cooper Black Italic Outline | Barneybear (Brendel) | Yes | | |
187 | | Cooper Black Outline | (Solo - in CD/Book), (Bitstream), (URW) | Yes | OUT | |
134 | | Cooper Old Style | (Berthold,FontCompany/URW), C793 Roman (SoftMaker) | Yes | | |
118 | | Copely Plaza | | No | | |
64 | | Copley | Adamantine (Scriptorium), Mercantile Display NF (NicksFonts) | Yes | | |
161 | | Copperplate Gothic | Very widely available. Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, A&L's Cobalt; Corel/Bitstream's Copperplate Gothic; Brendel's LABRADOR; ClickArt's Cobalt (BA) and Ironclad (ML); Agfa's originals included in Print Artist bundle; Novel's | Yes | | |
161 | | Copperplate Gothic Washington | Washington (Opti), Whiz (Opti), Arlington (Brendel), Wasserman (Novel) | Yes | | |
190 | 23 | Coral Inline = Delight No. 2 on page 23 | pepinot (Claude Pelletier - no attribution in font) | Yes | | |
154 | | Corbett (Rg & CD) | | No | | |
44 | | Cordova | Casanova (Bright Ideas), Apollo (Rick Mueller, Peter Wiegel), and Cordoba (David Works)., Appeal (DTP), | Yes | | |
191 | | Corinthian Bold | (Letraset, E&F, FontCompany), Cordoba Bold (SoftMaker), GST has 3 wts of poor quality. | Yes | | |
191 | | Corinthian Bold Condensed | (Letraset), Corolla Bold Condensed 5 (Opti), | Yes | | |
191 | | Corinthian Extra Bold | (Letraset, E&F, FontCompany), Patras (Brendel), Corolla Extra Bold (Opti) | Yes | | |
191 | | Corinthian Light | (Letraset, E&F, FontCompany), Readers Light (Brendel), Corolla Light (Opti), Cordoba Reg (Softmaker). | Yes | | |
191 | | Corinthian Medium | (Letraset, E&F, FontCompany), Brendel Graveur and Opti Corolla Med. | Yes | | |
98 | | Coronet (Regular and Bold) | (Adobe, Agfa, Miles, Monotype, URW), Bow (A&L), Cornet (WSI), Coronation (SWFTE), Ribbon 131 (Bitstream), Pageant (Micrologic) , Hyazinth (Brendel), Savoye (Letraset), Coyonet (Opti) and more. | Yes | | |
159 | | Corporate Gothic | Opti Corporate G | Yes | | |
25 | | Corral | DXS Corral | Yes | | |
138 | | Corvenus Bold | Skyline Black (Font Bureau) | Yes | | |
138 | | Corvenus Bold Italic | | No | | Interesting that there are no digitizations of italic varieties. It may be that Solo obliqued them optically on-the-fly. |
138 | | Corvenus Condensed | Mercator Condensed (Brendel); Cortege (Novel), Cortland (Prima Fonts) | Yes | | There is no Corvenus Condensed in the catalog. There are so many name and weight variations of Corvenus/Corvinus that it is difficult, if not impossible to associate them appropriately. |
138 | | Corvenus Medium | LTC Glamour(LanstonType), Mercator (Brendel), Corvenus Lt. (Opti), Cortland Reg (Primafont), C794 Roman (SoftMaker). | Yes | | Solo catalog spells this family Corvenus. Original was spelled Corvinus. |
138 | | Corvenus Medium Italic | Corvinus Medium Italic (Opti) | Yes | | |
138 | | Corvenus Skyline | Skyline (Font Bureau), Corvinus Skyline (Letraset, ICG, Opti), Corvinus and Corvinus Bold (Ortiz-Lopez) | Yes | | |
138 | | Corvenus Skyline Italic | | No | | |
70 | | Countdown | Corel Countdown; WSI Compstyle, URW++ Condorcet. | Yes | | |
78 | | Country Barnum | Barking (Enstep) | Yes | | |
102 | | Courier (Script) | Canada Type Puma | Yes | | |
900 | | Court Hand | Solofont included in Dover Calligraphic book + CD pack. | Yes | CAL | |
19 | | Courtier Italic | | No | | |
90 | | Courtland | | No | | |
118 | | Courtland Stencil | | No | | |
27 | | Crackers | William Page 506 Medium (Wooden Type Fonts), No. 506 (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
149 | | Craw Clarendon | Brendel Alexandria. | Yes | | |
149 | | Craw Clarendon (Condensed, Book, and Outline) | | No | | |
187 | | Craw Clarendon Out | Create text art with solid fonts in Vector Graphic Illustration programs. | Yes | | |
137 | | Craw Modern (3 variants) | Opti Craw Modern (3) | Yes | | |
23 | | Crayon | Cranston Ornamented (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
23 | | Crayonette | Crayonnette (Claude Pelletier), Aridi08 | Yes | | Note that the font Crayonnette has two n's. |
900 | | Crazy Daisy | Solofont included in Dover Grunge book + CD pack. | Yes | GRU | |
23 | | Crazy Eights | Yum Yum NF (Nick Curtis / NicksFonts) | Yes | | Originally Cleveland Type Foundry "Mikado" (1893) |
121 | | Crazy Herold | Crazy Harold (Harold Lohner) | Yes | | |
23 | | Crazy Nines | | No | | |
71 | | Credit Card Figures (2 vars) | | No | | |
71 | | Credit Card Gothic | | No | | |
90 | | Crest | | No | | |
191 | | Crillee | Most foundries have a version. ATCrillee (Agfa), Also.Biathlon (Brendel), Trekker (WSI), Cristeta (Brendel), Cruiser (SWFTE). Crisium (URW). | Yes | | |
191 | | Crillee Light Italic | per Font Expert, many foundries carry: E&F, URW; BS; Agfa; LS. URW ++ Crisium. | Yes | | |
191 | | Crillee XB Italic | Brendel Stettin. others as above. | Yes | | |
22 | | Cristal | (George Williams), Palace (Brendel), Crinoline (Novel), Crystal (Opti). | Yes | | |
73 | | Croissant | (Bitstream), Crest (Bay Animation/Arts&Letters); PANDERO (Brendel); Cressida (WSI), Curacao (SoftMaker), Cresulfin (MauerKirchner&Grunert); | Yes | | |
12 | | Cross Gothic | Crossan Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
900 | | Crossroads | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
30 | | Crostie | | No | | |
18 | | Cruikshank | (Dieter Steffmann), Cruickshank (HiHRetroFonts), HankKrushchev (Soft Horizons), Eureka (Peter Wiegel),LeGrand(Gophmann) | Yes | | Original spelling is Cruickshank. This is Krebs' "Eureka" on Petzendorfer p. 25. Steffman's is a clone of HankKruschchev, with addtional characters. The Wiegel version has more characters and more elaborate punctuation and special characters. |
20 | | Crusader | Croydon (anonymous) Scanned. Windows Fontview doesn't show the double lines properly. It has only the simple alternates for C, D, and N., and no punctuation. | Yes, but | | |
52 | | Crust | | No | | |
119 | | Cuba Stencil | | No | | |
48 | | Cubist | (Solo - Dover Moderne CD & book), Bric-A-Braque NF (Nick Curtis / NicksFonts) | Yes | MOD | Originally by John Zimmerman for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, 1929 |
42 | | Culdee | Cullane Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
900 | | Cupid | "Cupid" appears in the Solocat index pages, but not on the page shown (46). There is a 1995 art nouveau font named "Cupid"by Panache Typography, which COULD be the same. | Maybe | | |
190 | | Cupola | (George Williams); Cupid (Agfa, Panache). | Yes | | |
28 | | Curiosity | | No | | |
191 | | Cursillo | WhatThe Font could not identify | No | | |
181 | | Cursiva Iberica | | No | | |
149 | | Cushing | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name, Brendel's Calgary; Opti's Curtis; SoftKey SSi's Perspective; and SoftMaker's Calgary 25. | Yes | | |
149 | | Cushing Outline | | No | | |
163 | | Cut-in Medium | Cutin (Claude and Character), Simplement (Claude Pelletier) | Yes | | |
90 | | Cutlass | | No | | |
162 | | Cycle | | No | | |