A curious wood type indeed. This type, known as Geometric, was originally introduced previous to 1884 by the Central Type Foundry. Hamilton Manufacturing eventually acquired this design and rereleased it with more weights and widths. But Geometric strangely has qualities of the De Stijl artistic movement. It reminiscent of the alphabets of Theo van Doesberg, drawn almost 30 years later. Who knows, perhaps Theo was inspired by these minimal letters.
Working with as much source material as we could find, we pieced together 6 fonts. We replicated pristine versions of the 4 fonts we knew existed. Then I created 2 Shopworn versions, showing a more rough and warm cut of this face that tries to replicate some of the artifacts of hand-cut wood and the attrition of well used wooden type. Of course I expanded on it to include all the sorts and Central European diacritics you might need.
This project is in the works and slated for a June release from Hamilton Wood Type Foundry. For making HWT Geometric possible I have to give big thanks to Richard Kegler at P22 type foundry, Bill & Jim Moran at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, and David Shields the foremost American Wood Type historian.
Working with as much source material as we could find, we pieced together 6 fonts. We replicated pristine versions of the 4 fonts we knew existed. Then I created 2 Shopworn versions, showing a more rough and warm cut of this face that tries to replicate some of the artifacts of hand-cut wood and the attrition of well used wooden type. Of course I expanded on it to include all the sorts and Central European diacritics you might need.
This project is in the works and slated for a June release from Hamilton Wood Type Foundry. For making HWT Geometric possible I have to give big thanks to Richard Kegler at P22 type foundry, Bill & Jim Moran at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, and David Shields the foremost American Wood Type historian.
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