PAGE | Also on page | SoloCat or Solofont Name | Alias Analysis | Match | Dover CD Book | Comments |
36 | | Facade | Steve Matteson's Monotype Facade very similar though not an exact match. | Yes | | |
36 | | Facade Bold Cond. | | No | | |
900 | | Fairmont | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
197 | | Falstaff | The sample from Solocat 197 is not the same face as Monotype's same-named face. No match yet. | No | | |
101 | | Fanal Script | | No | | |
110 | | Fancy Card text | FancyText (Diogene-ClaudePelettier), Showcard (Silver Graphics). Pepin Press Fancy 129 (Dick Pape, from a Pepin Press alphabet), Minster #4 (PJLloyd), moderne Kirchen Gotisch (Gerhard Helzel), Fancy Card Text (Becky S.) | Yes | | Fancy Card Text (Dieter Steffmann) has the same basic characters, but without the ornamentation. |
13 | | Fancy Celtic | (Solotype), 101! Fancy Letterin' (NghtMvs101) | Yes | VIC | |
900 | | Fancy Dan | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
900 | | Fandango | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
50 | | Fanfare | (Rick Mueller, Opti), Cabaret (Steffmann), Tambourint (Brendel), Famoose (Novel), NorthCarolina (FontHouse), Faralones (Primafonts), Jugler (Primafonts) | Yes | | Note: Bertholds 'Fanfare' is a different face. Design by Louis Oppenheim, 1927 |
57 | | Fanfare (Recut) UB | Brendel Bravour; Novel Fansilla; Opti Fantastik; Subflux Bongo Fraktur; and SoftMaker F650 Deco. Scriptorium Dromon is a match but seems to be just a bit narrower than its competitors. | Yes | | |
77 | | Fanfold | (Opti), Fanzine (Novel), Shohl Fold (Rakowski), Bajazzo (Brendel) | Yes | | |
10 | | Fantail | Wanted Beatty (Beatty an edited version of Fantail). Fredericksburg WBS (Nick Curtis), Teutonic (Jordan Davies Wood Fonts) | Yes | | Fantail was the foundry tradename. CF Roxy [wood], 38. http://www.typeheritage.com/ Happy_New_Year_2010.htm |
72 | | Fantan | (Solo) | Yes | | |
42 | | Fantasie Artistique | (George Williams - font has no internal attribution) | Yes | | |
46 | | Fantasie Noire | Reggion (Scriptorium) | Yes | | Original design by Georges Peignot & fils |
53 | | Fantastic | Fantastic Modern (Rick Mueller), Fantastic ML (HiH Retrofonts) | Yes | | |
67 | | Fantasy No.4 | | No | | In Index no sample on page 67 |
19 | | Fargo | Farmerboy Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | An earlier version of the Solopedia indicated that Dieter Steffmann's Toskanische Egyptienne Initialen was a good workalike. It has a somewhat similar feel, but is really nothing like Fargo. |
28 | | Farringdon | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
28 | | Farringdon Outline | | No | | |
15 | | Fashion | Fastidious Condensed (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | Shown as Fashion Condensed in 100 Victorian Alphabets |
15 | | Fashion Ornamented | Fastidious Ornamented (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
160 | 185, 186 | Fat Albert (3 variants) | Fat Albert BT (Ray Cruz) all three | Yes | | |
185 | 160 | Fat Albert Outline | (BT by Ray Cruz) | Yes | | |
186 | 160 | Fat Albert Shadow | (BT by Ray Cruz) | Yes | | |
48 | | Fat Cat | Frenchy (Red Rooster, QuickBrownFox), Katzenfatzen NF (Nick Curtis / NicksFonts), Fat Cat DXS (Dick Pape), Frency (Brendel)Falla (Opti),; Frantic (WSI), F820 Deco (Softmaker) | Yes | | |
900 | | Fat Face No. 20 | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
178 | | Fat Shaded | Shady Grove NF (NicksFonts) | Yes | | |
61 | | Fata Morgana | | No | | |
141 | | FatFace, ITC | Fat Face (Image Club Graphics, URW), ITC Fat Face (Paratype), PudgyPussNF (Nick's Fonts) | Yes | | |
75 | | Fatima | Matching digital version of Houdini (c) 2000 Dover Publications, but not listed in any of the packs now?? Not same as Houdini Lights. | Yes | | |
109 | | Faust Text | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
30 | | Fearless | | No | | |
154 | | Fedder Bold Italic | | No | | Emeralda Italic (Cape Arcona) is very similar, but without the serifs or slanted tops. |
67 | | Fenceline | Drift Wood (Dieter Steffmann), DriftType (Paul Reid (AKA 'Who Am I')) | Yes | | A version of Steffmann's font exists renamed to Fenceline with a copyright line of 'DriftType' |
128 | | Fenice | Digital versions include Adobe's and Corel's by the original name, A&L's Feline; ClickArt's Feline; Opti's Floro; SoftKey SSi's Compendium; SoftMaker's Ferrara; and Swfte's Felicia. The lighter weight resembles Favrile, but the heavier wts do not. | Yes | | |
900 | | Fenwick | Solofont included in Dover Celtic book + CD pack. | Yes | CEL | |
14 | | Ferdinand | (Solo), Baphomet (SWFTE), Asphodel (Scriptorium), BaronMunchausen (Gophmann). | Yes | VIC | |
54 | | Festival | Monotype has an original-name version (Festival Titling) in FontShop 1993 FontBook. DXS Festival (Dick Pape), Aldus says "very common?" in his text list of available look-alikes, but I haven't found any others. | Yes | | |
61 | | Fieldstone | | No | | |
197 | | Fiesta | TriedWhatTheFont | No | | |
100 | | Figaro | Solofont included in Dover Scripts book/CD. Dalia (A&L), Eleven (Brendel). Iphegenia (Scriptorium) , Kelly Brown (De Nada) | Yes | SCR | |
178 | | Figgins Shaded | | No | | |
77 | | Fillet | (Solo), Streamers NF (NicksFonts), Toletto (Rakowski) | Yes | SPFX | |
77 | | Film | Harold Lohner's Le Film Classic. | Yes | | |
900 | | Filmstar | Included in Dover/Solo Special Effects pack. Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | SPFX | |
45 | | Fingal's Cave | Peacenik (Silver Graphics), Paul Putnam' (Soft Horizons). Puppy and PuppyLike (ImageLine and EnStep, respectively) are an obliqued version. | Yes | | |
900 | | Fingerpaint | Solofont included in Dover Grunge book + CD pack. | Yes | GRU | |
153 | | Fino (2 wts) | Fina (Image Club Graphics). | Yes | | |
35 | | Fiona | | No | | |
125 | | Fiore Medium | There are digital versions from Headliners, Typoart, Red Rooster known as Polaris or Faust. Also Opti Faber Medium Agency. | Yes | | |
900 | | Fiorello CD | Prima Fid Reg. | Yes | | |
60 | | Firebug | Solofont included in DoverSpecial Effects book + CD pack. .Rakowski Crackling Fire. SoftKey SSi Firebug; Swfte Hellfire; WSI Flaming Display Caps; Attitude Fire; and Electric Alphabet Crackling. | Yes | SPFX | |
31 | | Firehouse Gothic | | No | | |
141 | | Firenze | (Brendel), ITCFirenze (Anon.), Floral (Bay Animation), Florence (Corel) | Yes | | |
137 | | Firmin Didot | (Linotype, HiHRetro, FontCo, Opti) | Yes | | |
137 | | Firmin Didot Bold | (Linotype, HiHRetro, Font Co.) | Yes | | |
900 | | Five Star Final | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
75 | | Flag Initials | Karneval (© says "dustup key 3003"), RC All American (Anon) | Yes | | |
900 | | Flair | Flair (Type Revivals) Flare (Solo) included in Dover Scripts book + CD pack, FleurFord (Soft Horizons) | Yes | SCR | Added SH font |
197 | | Flamenco | Corel Flamenco & SoftMaker Fuego. Available as E+F Flamenco. Available from URW as Flammanion and URW++ Flamenco D. | Yes | | |
60 | | Flamo | David Rakowski's "Firecat" or Rick Mueller's "Flames.". Aldus renamed Flames to Flamo; HFF Fire Dancer. | Yes | | |
94 | | Flash | Digital versions include Corels Flash; Brendel's Slager; ClickArt's; Agfa's Lt, B, & Outl originals included inthe Print Artist bundle; Opti's Flintlock; and SoftMaker's Falcon and S760 Deco. Also check Lanston, URW, E+F, and Letraset. | Yes | | |
170 | | Flash Idea Open | | No | | |
101 | | Fleet (Label Script in SoloCat) | Name is Aligner per Photo | Yes | BOS | |
53 | | Flemish Condensed | Flemish Regular (Atech), The following are wannabes, lower-quality look-alikes: A&L Manchuria (1 free DL @ their WEB site); Brendel Telepath. Tora 6 (Cambridge Fontworks) is a clone of Atech's Flemish Regular) | Yes | | |
43 | | Flemish Wide | Flemish-NormalEx (Fantazia), Bruges (Scriptorium) Aldus lists look-alikes. | Yes | | |
900 | | Fletcher | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
101 | | Flex Ribbon | | No | | |
82 | | Flintstone | (Peter Bryant, Anon), Other look-alikes include Jenufa (Brendel); and Glyphics (WSI). Jim Dandy 2 (Cambridge Fontworks) is a clone of the Peter Bryant font. Also see Flintstone Wannabe record for more work-alikes. | Yes | | |
82 | | Flintstone (wannabe) | SoftKey SSi Tribal Display Caps; Swfte Prehistoric. Swfte has Small Caps as LC; Solocat orig. very similar. See main Flintstone record for better matches. | Yes | | |
180 | | Flippo (2 vars) | | No | | |
11 | | Flirt | Flippant Roman (The Type Heritage Project - Alan J. Prescott) | Yes | | |
900 | | Flo Barnum | | No | | |
900 | | Floral Latin | Solofont included in Dover Victorian book + CD pack. | Yes | VIC | |
910 | | Florentine Bold | | No | | The bold versions of the fonts listed with 'Florentine Light' are NOT equivalent to the Florentine Bold as shown in this catalog. |
157 | | Florentine Light | Florentine (Font Company, Brendel, Opti); Wright (A&L); Flourish (FontBank); Prima's Florida; SoftKey SSi's Toque Disp; SoftMaker's F761 Deco; Swfte's Gabriel; and WSI's Foster. May be at URW. | Yes | | Index shows only 'Florentine' |
67 | | Floriad | | No | | |
900 | | Florid Victorian Ornament | Probably scanned and digitized from a Dover/Solo printed book. | Yes | | |
17 | | Florist | | No | | |
118 | | Flosso | | No | | |
900 | | Fluidum (Bold) | Solofont included in Dover Bold Script book + CD pack. | Yes | BOS | |
59 | | Focus (aka Process) | Dephunked BRK (Aenigma Fonts) | Yes | | |
173 | | Folio | Corel has 7 variants; SoftKey SSi version called Layout. | Yes | | |
173 | | Folio Extra Bold | Brendel Dakota; Novel Focus; SoftKey SSi Surin Display. | Yes | | |
183 | | Folio Outline | | No | | |
197 | | Folkwang | TriedWhatTheFont | No | | |
22 | | Fontanesi | Spatz Plain (Lorvad), Fontanesi (House of Lime), Kudos Kaps Five (Nicks Fonts - in the lower case) | Yes | | |
57 | | Forester | | No | | |
163 | | Formula (2 wts) | Formula One (Opti); Formule 1 and Formule 1 Bold (Anonymous, posted in abf by Aldus, bad encoding), | Yes | | Most glyphs are very similar to VAG Rounded, but there are significant differences, such as a 2-storey 'a' instead of VAG's single storey 'a'. |
102 | | Forte | Solofont included in Dover Bold Script book + CD pack. Available by orig. name fr. Monotype, Adobe, Agfa. | Yes | BOS | |
102 | | Fortunata (Rg & It) | Rick Mueller's Sixties. | Yes | | |
149 | | Fortune (4 weights) | Volta (E&F, URW, Linotype) | Yes | | |
119 | | Fortune Stencil | | No | | |
178 | | Forum I and II | | No | | |
128 | | Forum Titling | (Red Rooster) LTC Forum Titling ( Lanston Type) | Yes | | |
47 | | Foster Gothic (aka Rollo) | Tried WhatTheFont | No | | |
197 | | Fournier | Digital versions include Adobe's by the original name,;Brendel's PEER GYNT; and Opti's Forquet. | Yes | | |
100 | | Fox | (Opti), Ronin (A&L), Rhapsodie (Brendel), Fantazia Unique 33. | Yes | | |
71 | | Fractured Typewriter | McGarey (Rakowski) Detective (SWFTE); | Yes | | Entebbe (Brendel) is an artificially widened copy of McGarey. |
44 | | Franconia | Solofont digital version included in Dover/Solofont Art Nouveau book + CD pack. Also WSI Sundra Display Caps. | Yes | ANV | |
69 | | Frankenstein | Stolzenfels (Brendel); Drooping (ImageLine); Friezel (Novel!); Frankenstein's Bride (Opti); and Corpus (Scriptorium). "Aaaaaaaargh Caps" (shareware or freeware ??) | Yes | | |
163 | | Frankfurter | (Letraset original, Fontek, OPTI, E&F, URW), Allgemeine (Brendel),Kimberlyh (Brendel), Felix Caps (Opti) , Fatso (Silver Graphics), Frankenberg (Softmaker). Many others. | Yes | | |
163 | | Frankfurter Highlight | (Letraset, Fontek, ITC, URW, Scangraphic) Francis HighLighted (A&L), F821 Deco (Softmaker) | Yes | | |
183 | | Frankfurter Out (2 vars) | | No | | |
177 | | Franklin Gothic (Original) | Many. Digital versions include A&L's Philadelphia and SoftMaker's Franklin Goth Orig and Franklin Headilne. | Yes | | |
900 | | Franklin Gothic Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |
180 | | Franklin Open Shade | | No | | |
108 | | Frederick Text | Solofont included in Dover Gothic book + CD pack. Available as Goudy Text from Adobe & the Ascender Creativity Pack, and Monotype; plus other major vendors. Also 6 variants of Arthur by Imageline. | Yes | GOT | |
9 | | Fredericksburg | Yorktown (Silver Graphics, Dieter Steffmann). Boxwood (Aerotype), Pianobar (Brendel) | Yes | | |
50 | | Frednel | | No | | |
85 | | Freedom 200 | | No | | |
112 | | Freehand (Normal) | Solofont included in Dover Gothic book + CD pack. Duly Noted (NicksFonts) | Yes | GOT | |
112 | | Freehand with Swash Initials | (Solo - in GOT/CD), Rhapsodie Swash Caps (Solo - has these caps with Rhapsody's lower case), Fresh Cap Font 120 Bold (Imageline, caps only). | Yes | GOT | |
900 | | French Ionic | Solofonts version @ MyFonts. | Yes | | |
81 | | French Kate | | No | | |
164 | 165 | Frisko | | No | | |
122 | | Friz Quadrata (3 wts) | Original digital versions from Adobe, Corel/Bitstream, | Yes | | |
33 | | Frolic | Jeferson Pilot NF(Nick Curtis) | Yes | | |
197 | | Fry's Baskerville | (Bitstream) | Yes | | |
19 | | Fry's Ornamented (Caps) | (Roger White), 30Fry's Ornamented (AR Types), Fry'sAlphabet (Intellecta), Fry's Relikt (Brendel),; Carnivale (SS/Softkey); Cruiseline Display Caps (WSI). Smooth(Enstep), Hunter(Rakowski), Beffle (Rakowski), Pomfrit Dandy (Nick Curtis) | Yes | | ScalaJewelPearl (FontShop) is similar, but without the curved stems or serifs. |
101 | 86 | Fulton Sign Script | Sweden (Bay Animation), Philly Script (FontCompany / URW), Ebor Script (Panache) | Yes | | Same as Ebor Script, page 86 |
23 | | Funhouse | | No | | Nick Curtis's Whoa Nelly has a similar feel, but is not exact . |
172 | | Futura (multiple styles and weights) | Most foundries have extensive Futura catalogs. Adobe, Bitstream, URW, Agfa, E&F, Scangraphic, and more. Also numerous equivalents, both free and otherwise. | Yes | | |
49 | | Futura Black | (Linotype, Corel/Bitstream, Opti), DekoBlack (Brendel/Softmaker), Template (ClickArt-ML); Fulton (Novel); Dayton (Fontbank), Cado Display (SoftKey/SSi) Display; Army Black (Swfte), Futurist (WSI), Durham (Silver Graphics) | Yes | | |
49 | | Futura Black Outline | Futura Black Art Deco Outline (URW) | Yes | | Softmaker's Deko Black Outline Regular is a relicensed version of the URW font noted. |
184 | | Futura Black Outline | | Yes | | |
155 | | Futura Display | Prima Fut Pla and SoftMaker S842 Deco. Savings Bond (by Harold Lohner, with expanded version by Dieter Steffmann) is not an exact match; but it is free, good quality, and can serve as a work-alike. | Yes | | |
169 | | Futura Inline | DXS Futura Inline | Yes | | |
101 | | Futura Script | (Elsner & Flake). Fscript (Font Company), Machine Script (De Nada), Manuscript (Brendel), Function Script (Softmaker) | Yes | | Aldus renamed Softmaker Function Script to Futura Script |
900 | | Futurama Italic | Solofont listed as included in 2001 Dover Moderne book + CD pack; not listed in 2008. Possible elimination or name change? | Yes | MOD | |
900 | | Futurama Outline | Solofont included in Dover Outline book + CD pack. | Yes | OUT | |