Pretorian goes back to an early 20th century
typeface by P.M. Shanks and Sons, Ltd., The Patent Type Foundry,
London. [Petzendorfer]
Also came in an Outline style. [Reichardt]
Revived for phototypsetting by Photo-Lettering as Xenotype
3466 [Art Nouveau Xenotypes 1895–1905, 1962]
and by Facsimile Fonts as Pretorian [Berthold’s
E1, 1972], and by Letraset as rub-down type [Letraset
Type Tree in Modern Publicity, 1976].
Digitized as OPTI Pretoria (Castcraft),
Vivian (Dieter Steffmann), and, most successfully, as
Pretorian DT by Ron Carpenter and Malcolm Wooden (DTP
Types Limited, 1992), adding Inline, Profile (Outline) and
Handtooled styles. Ray Larabie’s Reagan More…
Pretorian goes back to an early 20th century typeface by P.M. Shanks and Sons, Ltd., The Patent Type Foundry, London. [Petzendorfer] Also came in an Outline style. [Reichardt]
Revived for phototypsetting by Photo-Lettering as Xenotype 3466 [Art Nouveau Xenotypes 1895–1905, 1962] and by Facsimile Fonts as Pretorian [Berthold’s E1, 1972], and by Letraset as rub-down type [Letraset Type Tree in Modern Publicity, 1976].
Digitized as OPTI Pretoria (Castcraft), Vivian (Dieter Steffmann), and, most successfully, as Pretorian DT by Ron Carpenter and Malcolm Wooden (DTP Types Limited, 1992), adding Inline, Profile (Outline) and Handtooled styles. Ray Larabie’s Reagan (Typodermic, 2007) is a weathered interpretation.
