First shown as wood type by William H. Page in his 1859
Specimens of Wood Type. Names include
Gothic Tuscan Pointed (Cooley, 1859–1863), Antique
Tuscan No 10 [#335] (Page), and #5228 (Wells). Shown in
American Wood Type with missing lowercase. [Kelly 1969] [RRKWTC]
A similar design was shown as foundry type by White [c.1858
specimen] and later Farmer [1867
specimen] as Five Line Pica Ornamented No. 1.
Adopted for phototype by Headliners as part of the Morgan Press
Collection as W 145 (with lowercase) [Headliners 1964].
Digital interpretations include Ironwood (Adobe, 1990, no lowercase) and
Iron
Horse (The Fontry, 2008, More…
First shown as wood type by William H. Page in his 1859 Specimens of Wood Type. Names include Gothic Tuscan Pointed (Cooley, 1859–1863), Antique Tuscan No 10 [#335] (Page), and #5228 (Wells). Shown in American Wood Type with missing lowercase. [Kelly 1969] [RRKWTC]
A similar design was shown as foundry type by White [c.1858 specimen] and later Farmer [1867 specimen] as Five Line Pica Ornamented No. 1.
Adopted for phototype by Headliners as part of the Morgan Press Collection as W 145 (with lowercase) [Headliners 1964].
Digital interpretations include Ironwood (Adobe, 1990, no lowercase) and Iron Horse (The Fontry, 2008, w/ lowercase, not identical to the Headliners version; used for sample). AWT Page Gothic Tuscan Pointed (Dick Pape, 2014) is a direct digitization of the showing in American Wood Type.
