PAGE | Also on page | SoloCat or Solofont Name | Alias Analysis | Match | Dover CD Book | Comments |
196 | | Eagle (Serif) (4 weights) | | No | | |
166 | | Eagle Ace Italic | | No | | |
169 | | Eagle Bold | (Solo , in Dover/Solofont Art Deco book/cd), Resolute NF (Nick Curtis / NicksFonts) | Yes | ADC | aka Bureau Eagle. Designed by Morris Fuller Benton as "Eagle" in 1934. Heavily used in depression era WPA posters. |
166 | | Earl Ace Italic | | No | | |
159 | 169 | Earth | Terranova NF (Nick's Fonts) is a revival but lacks many of the alternate characters, Earth Normal (Elfring) is very similar | Partially | | Elfring's Earth1 and Earth2 are based on the same source, but neither is exactly the same as the Catalog sample. |
169 | 159 | Earth | Terranova NF (Nick's Fonts) is a revival but lacks many of the alternate characters, Earth Normal (Elfring) is very similar | Yes | | Elfring's Earth1 and Earth2 are based on the same source, but neither is exactly the same as the Catalog sample. |
60 | | Earthquake | Solofont included in Dover Circus book + CD pack. Rick Mueller drew a free same-named version. | Yes | CIR | |
52 | | East Side | | No | | |
167 | | Easter Gothic | | No | | |
118 | | Eastern | | No | | |
900 | | Eastlake | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
43 | | Ebony | (Claude and Character) | Yes | | |
86 | 101 | Ebor Script | (Panache), Philly Script (FontCompany/URW), Sweden (BayAnimation), | Yes | | Same as Fulton Sign Script, page 101 |
20 | 50 | Eccentric | (Agfa/Miles, Linotype, Solo), Eccentrical (?) Artist Modern (Gophmann) | Yes | | Letraset Galadriel [1975]=Eccentric Bold |
50 | 20 | Eccentric | (Agfa/Miles, Linotype, Solo), Eccentrical (?) Artist Modern (Gophmann) | Yes | | Letraset Galadriel [1975]=Eccentric Bold |
110 | | Ecclesiastic | Aridi27 | Yes | | |
180 | | Echo | Unattributed freeware, user scan of 1956 font by Peter Bell. | Yes | | |
166 | | Echo Ace Italic | | No | | |
46 | | Eckmann Schrift | Eckmann Schrift and Rudelsberg (Dieter Steffmann), Eckmann (Linotyupe, URW), Freeform 710 (Bitstream), Freedom (Bay Animation), Etienne (Softmaker), Lushlife (SWFTE), | Yes | | For some reason, the bold and italic versions of some of these, such as (Lushlife), are really Auriol (q.v.) |
55 | | Eclair | Zebraesq (Manfred Klein), Rythme NF (Nick's Fonts) | Yes | | |
49 | | Eclipse | EclipseCaps(Tim Ryan, re-drawn for Agfa's Type Revivals.), CGEclipse, ZekeLipschitz(SoftHorizons) | Yes | | |
167 | | Eclipse Gothic | Tried WhatTheFont | No | | |
118 | | Edda | (DavidBerlow/Font Bureau),EdithDay (SoftHorizons). Edda Text (FontBureau). EddaMF (Mueller). Edda Caps (Sam Wang, but internally unattributed.) | Yes | | Solo's Edda Black, renamed to Edda AltStyleA can be found in circulation. |
900 | | Edda Black | Solofont digital version included in Dover/Solofont Art Nouveau book + CD pack. | Yes | ANV | |
118 | | Edda Stencil | | No | | |
167 | | Eddy Gothic | Tried WhatTheFont | No | | |
138 | | Eden (Regular, Bold, and Light) | (Solo, CastleType,RedRooster) | Yes | ADC | Red Rooster also has Medium and Extra Bold |
166 | | Eden Ace Italic | Solofont digital version listed as included in Dover/Solofont Art Deco book + CD pack. However, not found in pack examined. Only regular and light upright sqarish serif designs, not sans italic as illustrated in Solocat. | No | ADC | |
138 | | Eden Bold Titling | | No | | |
37 | | Edna | Clarendon Extended (Wooden Type Fonts) | No | | |
94 | | Edrick | | No | | |
196 | | Edwardian (Serif Text) | (Elsner + Flake), Edwallian (Opti) - Light, Light Italic, Medium, Bold, and Extra Bold) | Yes | | |
10 | | Edwardian Clarendon | | No | | |
29 | | Egiziano | Egiziano aka Egiziano Wood. Digital look-alikes include Brendel Bergamo; Novel Eglentine; Opti Egiziano Normal; and Prima Elgin. | Yes | | |
29 | | Egiziano Wood | | No | | |
152 | | Egizio | SoftMaker E710 Roman. | Yes | | |
137 | | Egmont | Brendel Xenon; Opti Elsen. | Yes | | |
152 | | Egyptian 505 | Digital versions include A&L's Eggo (BA); Corel/Bitstream's Egyptian 505; ClickArt's Eggo ( BA); Image Club's Egyptian 505; Opti's Egyptian; and SoftMaker's Egyptian Text. | Yes | | |
187 | | Egyptian 505 Outline | | No | | Caould be created from Egyptian 505 |
187 | | Egyptian Bd Cd Out | | No | | |
150 | | Egyptian Bold (4 variants) | (Alphabets Inc), (Elsner & Flake), others. | Yes | | |
151 | | Egyptian Expanded (2 vars) | | No | | |
900 | | Egyptian Oldstyle | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
128 | | Ehmke (Carleton) | Ehmcke (HoeflerTypeFoundry), Carlton Std (ITC) | Yes | | Solo catalog has Ehmcke misspelled as Ehmke |
196 | | Ehrhardt | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name and SoftMaker's E720 Roman. | Yes | | |
139 | | Eightball | Dirigent (Brendel), Egbert (Novel), Barracon Display (SSI/SSK - someone [aldus?] posted a copy renamed to Eighth Ball). Orotund (Canada Type) | Yes | | |
139 | 182, 183 | Eightball Outline | | No | | |
182 | 139, 183 | Eightball Outline | | No | | |
183 | 139, 182 | Eightball Outline | | No | | |
51 | | Eleanora | | No | | |
54 | | Electra Clara | | No | | |
167 | | Electro Gothic | | No | | |
70 | | Electronic (rg & it) | | No | | |
44 | | Elefanta | Elefantasia NF (Nic Curtis / NicksFonts) | Yes | | Karl Brendler & Söhne, Vienna, late 1800's |
45 | | Elefante (Marshall) | Marshall (Solo), Dimanche NF (Nick's Fonts) | Yes | | Brilliant (RMU) is similar, but wider and with some letters such as 'W' mirrored horizontally. |
45 | 184 | Elefante Outline (aka Domingo) | | No | | |
184 | 45 | Elefante Outline (Domingo) | | No | | |
53 | 83 | Elefont (Display) | SoftMaker Elmshorn. Also URW, E+F under original name. | Yes | | |
83 | 53 | Elefont (Display) | SoftMaker Elmshorn. Also URW, E+F under original name. | Yes | | |
96 | | Elegance | Included in Dover/Solo Scripts pack. Other digital versions: Canada Type Sincerely and Opti Elegance. | Yes | SCR | |
119 | | Elephant Stencil | | No | | |
102 | | Elite | Dover/Solo version in Bold Scripts pack. Digital versions include Canada Type Fontella; also an earlier revival by Gary Elfring. | Yes | BOS | |
196 | 197 | Elizabethan | See Belwe (Page 124) | Yes | | These are additional weights of Belwe (p. 124 |
197 | 196 | Elizabethan CD | See Belwe (Page 124) | Yes | | |
167 | | Elm Gothic | | No | | |
18 | | Elmo Outline | | No | | |
18 | | Elmo Solid | | No | | |
197 | | Elmont | OPTI has an extra bold wt. | Yes | | |
178 | | Elongated Roman Shaded | | No | | |
103 | | Elvira Bold Italic | (Solo in Dover book/CD), SienaBlack (Monotype Imaging/Creative Alliance) | Yes | BOS | Original design name was Siena Black |
197 | | Embrionic | Embrionic85 (Claude Pellettier), Agostina (YouWorkForThem) | Yes | | Cressida NF (NicksFonts) is a tri-line version. |
42 | | Emperor | EmperorAN (Character), Emperor ST (Anon.), Cipango (Scriptorium - Caps only) OPTIMiyako-Black matches, but has an alternate 'A', Alibi (Enstep) | Yes | | This is NOT the same Emperor as the Solotype font with the same name. Original name was Fette Mikado (Pfetzendorfer). |
900 | | Emperor | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. This is not a match for the same-named font on pg. 42 of the Solocat nor any of the Oriental-style faces on pg. 72. | Yes | | |
7 | | Empire (Bureau Empire) | Opti's Empire Pro and Galaxy; Font Bureau Bureau Empire. Also Ortiz-Lopez's Sharon Stone Gothic. Agfa/Monotype Empire | Yes | | This entry and the two following are very confusing and need to be reevaluated. |
7 | | Empire (Bureau Empire) Wannabe | The following match Empire, only not so well as those in the main record. Bay Animation Gorgio (1 free dl at A&L); A&L's Slim Jim; Brendel's Enterprise; Prima's Galaxy and Glendale; SoftKey SSi's Suva; and WSI's Empress. | Yes | | |
7 | | Empire (workalike) | aka Iris. NOT the same as Bureau Empire, Solocat 7. But the following match this Empire: A&L's Expel (BA); Corel/Bitstream's Empire; Brendel's Commonwealth; ClickArt's Expel (BA); or Opti's Empire Pro. | Yes | | |
7 | | Empire Bold Caps | Empire Bold (Font Bureau) | Yes | | |
7 | | Empire Caps | Empire BT (Bitstream) | Yes | | |
7 | | Empire Medium Caps | | No | | |
7 | | Empire with lowercase | Empire (Font Bureau) | Yes | | |
6 | | Emporia Gothic | Titling Gothic-Skyline (FontBureau). | Yes | | |
139 | | Encore (Rg & CD) | | No | | |
167 | | Encore Gothic | League Black Italic (Letterbox) | Yes | | |
168 | | Energy Inline | | No | | |
167 | | Enge Wotan | | No | | |
110 | | Engraver's Old English | (Monotype, Solotype, Bitstream/Corel, OPTI), Engraver (BA) at A&L & Clickart; Blackletter (SoftMaker). Cambridge Fontworks Inferno 11 is a copy of Monotype's font. | Yes | GOT | |
62 | | Engravers Bold Shaded | (Opti) | Yes | | Opti font not yet found. Maurice Stripes (Softmaker) is similar, with fewer, darker, horizontal shading stripes. |
114 | | Engravers Initials No. 2 | Engraver's Initials #2 matches Scriptorium's Apollyon. | Yes | | |
114 | | Engravers Initials No. 3 | Avalon (SSK - is missing somedetails), Magdelena (Scriptorium - missing the same details, has a lower case) | Yes | | |
64 | | Engravers Roman (3 widths) | (Monotype/Microsoft, Corel/Bitstream, OPTI), and GG821 Deco (SoftMaker), Great Western (Font Mesa). Cambridge Fontworks "Walk This Way 2" is a direct copy of the Monotype font. | Yes | | |
108 | | Engravers Text | Gravure Text (Silver Graphics), Posh Soiree NF (Nick's Fonts) | Yes | | |
97 | | Engrossing Script | Solofont included in Dover Scripts book + CD pack. | Yes | SCR | |
900 | | Enigma | (?!) This apparently isn't a Solo related font; but it does match Fontbank Enliven and SoftKey SSi Partite Display. | No | | |
167 | | Entry Gothic | | No | | |
167 | | Envoy Gothic | Tried WhatTheFont | No | | |
15 | | Epitaph | (Font Bureau - drawn by Tobias Frere-Jones), Akimbo (Bright Ideas), Tombstone (LazyDog), Eulogy (Spork Thug, wavy letters), | Yes | | Original in Boston Type Foundry catalog, 188C |
15 | 186 | Epitaph Open | Glifik (John Smith/Rhode Island Press), Tombstone-Outline (Lazy Dog), Gyptienne (AARRGGHH!! Graphic Software - poorer outlines than catalog) | Yes | | |
186 | 15 | Epitaph Open | Glifik (John Smith/Rhode Island Press), Tombstone-Outline (Lazy Dog), Gyptienne (AARRGGHH!! Graphic Software - poorer outlines than catalog) | Yes | | |
173 | | Eras | Widely available. Digital versions inclu | Yes | | |
185 | | Eras Outline | | No | | |
197 | | Erasmus Extra Bold | (Red Rooster) - full family | Yes | | |
192 | | Erbar (5 weights) | (Agfa/Monotype, Linotype, FontCompany, URW) | Yes | | |
23 | | Erbar Initials | (Dave Fabik) Akropolis (Brendel-UC Only), Ermine (Novel-UC only), E820Deco (Softmaker), Brandegoris (Scriptorium), DeRoos (Dave Fabik). Erbar (Font Company, URW), ErbarDeco(Brendel), KudosKapsFiveNF (NicksFonts-UpperCaseOnly) | Yes | | With some exceptions, an inline version of Damsel (p.22) |
900 | | Erbar Sans CD | SoftMaker E821 Sans. | Yes | | |
176 | | Erin | | No | | |
197 | | Ernesto | TriedWhatTheFont | No | | |
147 | | Ernie | | No | | |
109 | | Eros Text | (Solo, in Dover Calligraphic/CD pack) | Yes | CAL | |
43 | | Erratick (3 variants) | | No | | |
186 | | Erratick Outline | MorganOptiSeventyFour | Yes | | |
900 | | Espania | Solofont included in Dover Calligraphic book + CD pack. | Yes | CAL | |
900 | | Esquire Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
120 | | Estienne | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | Inspired by an 1898 French face; many fonts have carried this name. |
83 | | Estro | (Mecanorma, Profonts-bold), Expo (Corel), Expose (Bay Animation) | Yes | | |
128 | | Euclid | | No | | |
27 | 34 | Eureka | YuriKay (Soft Horizons), Cowboy Serenade (FontMesa) | Yes | | Solo Circus Alphabets page 36 |
900 | | Eureka Antique | Solofonts version @ MyFonts (not the same-named face as shown on Solocat pages 27, 34). | Yes | | |
192 | | Eurocrat | (Monotype Imaging, ClubType) | Yes | | |
900 | | Europa Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
117 | | Europa Stencil (Charette) | Jeanneret NF (NickCurtis/NicksFonts) | Yes | | |
900 | | Europa Text | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
185 | 159 | Eurostile | Widely available. Digital versions include A&L's Eurasia (BA); Corel/Bi | Yes | | |
159 | 185 | Eurostile (9 variants) | Widely available. Digital versions include A&L's Eurasia (BA); Corel/Bi | Yes | | |
186 | | Eurostile Bd Shade | Create text art with solid fonts in Vector Graphic Illustration programs. | Yes | | |
185 | | Eurostile Outline | | No | | |
167 | | Evans Gothic | | No | | |
67 | | Eve Initials | (Paleale/David Koehne), SSi Fleur Display Caps(SSI/SSK) Garden Display Caps (WSI). Koch Initialen (Dieter steffmann, probably to honor the late original artist, Rudolf Koch), Lilith Initials (Rakowski), FloraDecora (Hallmark). | Yes | | |
123 | | Eve Light and Eve Bold | Koch Antiqua (Monotype), Eva SG and Eva Antiqua (Spiece Graphics - Multiple variants), Eve Light and Heavy (Opti), Evangel (Novel). Locarno (Letraset), Kuenstler 165 (Bitstream) | Yes | | Included as Eva in "100 Classic Roman Alphabets". Eve/Eva and Rivoli are both based on Rudolph Koch's originals. |
167 | | Event Gothic | | No | | |
900 | | Everglades | Solofont included in Dover Grunge book + CD pack. | Yes | GRU | |
44 | 133 | Excelsior (Display Serif) | Solofont digital version included in Dover/Solofont Art Nouveau book + CD pack. Records suggest it may've previously been known as Excellent. | Yes | ANV | |
133 | 44 | Excelsior (Display Serif) | Solofont digital version included in Dover/Solofont Art Nouveau book + CD pack. Records suggest it may have previously been known as Excellent. | Yes | ANV | |
96 | | Excelsior Script | aka Kuenstler Script, Palace Script. Quite a few versions. Digital | Yes | ANV | |
96 | | Excelsior Script Wannabe | There's a Dan Solo version of Artist's Script. Also very similar to Excelsior in Solocat, pg. 96, with a different LC b. | Yes | | |
29 | | Excelsis | (Solo); Farquharson (David Vereschagin) has Excelsis in the lower case and a stencil version in the upper case; The stencil portion also matches "Wooky Hole" on Solocat pg. 118. There are also fonts named Excelsis and Farquharson that are unattributed and are probably just clones of Vereschagin's Farquaharson. | Yes | | |
29 | | Excelsis Shadow | Solo face at MyFonts, derived from a solid version in Solocat, pg. 29. | Yes | | |
129 | | Exempla | | No | | |
128 | | Exeter | | No | | Catalog Index shows Exeter on page 197 as well. It isn't there. There is n Opti font named Exeter, but it is like Expressa from E&F and Brendel. |
197 | | Exeter | Tried WhatTheFont | No | | |
60 | | Explosion | Rakowski's Shrapnel. | Yes | | |
116 | | Export | | No | | |
36 | | Express | | No | | There are three completely different typefaces all named express in the catalog - on pages 36, 102, and 192. |
102 | | Express | (Type Revivals, Dieter Steffmann, Paratype) | Yes | | |
192 | | Express (4 weights) | Tried w/ what the font | No | | Shown as "Express No. 2" in catalog index |
190 | | Extra Condensed Title No.12 | Appears to be equivalent to Barnhart Bros-Spindler 1900 catalog "Gothic Compressed Title No. 8". No digitized version yet found. | No | | |
900 | | Extravaganza | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |