Designed by Hiroshi Yamashita for Schaedler in c. 1970 [Shin Oka].
Variants include Alpha Midnight (solid, shown),
Alpha Midday (outline), Alpha Sunrise
(perspective shadow), and Alpha Twilight (contour).
All 4 styles appear in Berthold Fototypes’ 1974 catalog (with
Schaedler credit and alternates for ‘ACEIKMNRSTUY’) and Solotype’s
1992 catalog. The Midnight style is shown in Formatt’s
1975 catalog, Castcraft’s 1978 catalog (where it is known as
Alfa Midnight or Out of this world), and
in Phil’s Photo 1980 catalog,
Alpha Midnight was digitized by Nick Curtis as
Mister
Bones NF (Nick's Fonts, 2011, incl. the alternates, used
for sample), More…
Designed by Hiroshi Yamashita for Schaedler in c. 1970 [Shin Oka]. Variants include Alpha Midnight (solid, shown), Alpha Midday (outline), Alpha Sunrise (perspective shadow), and Alpha Twilight (contour). All 4 styles appear in Berthold Fototypes’ 1974 catalog (with Schaedler credit and alternates for ‘ACEIKMNRSTUY’) and Solotype’s 1992 catalog. The Midnight style is shown in Formatt’s 1975 catalog, Castcraft’s 1978 catalog (where it is known as Alfa Midnight or Out of this world), and in Phil’s Photo 1980 catalog,
Alpha Midnight was digitized by Nick Curtis as Mister Bones NF (Nick's Fonts, 2011, incl. the alternates, used for sample), “reconstructed from an unnamed source by Dick Pape for Solotype”, and by Alan Prescott as APT New Alpha Midnight (1996, no alternates). ThisEndUp (Silver Graphics, 1995) is an interpretation of Alpha Twilight, with an added lowercase derived from some of the alternates.
