Type Legacy Project

The Hamilton Wood Type Legacy Project enlists internationally known designers to create original designs and naming these fonts after Hamilton Manufacturing employees, museum supporters and typographic luminaries who have helped preserve and carry on the rare craft of making wood type. These fonts are available for sale in digital format in the Hamilton Wood Type Collection at P22 Type Foundry. Type designers Matthew Carter, Erik Spiekermann, Nick Sherman and graphic designers Louise Fili, Marian Bantjes and Craig Welsh have all generously contributed original designs to the museum.

There are also 19 additional wood type revivals you can purchase as well.

KONOP

Our most recent release, Konop, named for retired Hamilton Mfg. employee and Museum board member Don Konop was released for sale on November 1st, 2018. HWT Konop is a monospaced (fixed-width) typeface that is also square! Designed by Mark Simonson (Proxima Nova) as square characters that can be arranged vertically or horizontally and in any orientation. The bold gothic style is reminiscent of gothic wood types but more geometric. 

 

VAN LANEN LATIN

Matthew Carter drew his inspiration from a chromatic latin style font for the creation called Van Lanen Latin. The font is named for museum founder and Two Rivers Historical Society member Jim Van Lanen and you can buy the font here.


ARTZ

Berlin-based type designer and letterpress printer Erik Spiekermann created and named this handsome font named for type cutter Dave Artz who worked for Hamilton as a type trimmer from 1976 to 1993. You can buy the font here and the poster here.


MARDELL

New York-based designer Louise Fili drew upon her love of Futurist typography for this typeface called Mardell. “This was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate two of my favorite subjects: women and Italy,” says Fili. Named after retired type cutter Mardell Doubek, this font is also available as a signed, limited-edition specimen sheet poster. You can buy the font here and purchase the poster here.


BRYLSKI

Type designer Nick Sherman created this font in the "Italian style" which typically features heavy terminals and serifs while having relatively thin stokes in the body of the letter. Named in honor of the late type cutter and museum volunteer Norbert Brylski, it's available for sale here.


LUSTIG ELEMENTS

Designers Craig Welsh and Elaine Lustig Cohen collaborated to revive a font originally designed by Alvin Lustig in the 1930s. The font is named after the Lustigs and an 1847 book, "The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid," which served as a source of inspiration. All glyphs are combinations of four geometric shapes.


BERNICE

Vancouver-based designer Marian Bantjes incorporated the border aesthetic of Hamilton Wood Type's stamping machine to create this modular glyph design that can be recombined and rotated to produce unique borders. Named for retired type trimmer Bernice Schwahert, you can buy the font here.

Hamilton Wood Type is cutting wood type versions of these fonts for sale. Contact info@woodtype.org to inquire about pricing.