Released by the Patent
Type-Founding Company around 1870 as Royal Gothic.
[McNeil: The Visual History of Type] Later continued
by successor Stevens,
Shanks.
Fette Grotesk (Flinsch, 1885) appears to be a copy.
The smaller sizes of Inseraten-Grotesque as sold by
Roos & Junge (later as Inseraten-Grotesk by Stempel)
are identical. The larger ones are from the similar
Zeitungs-Grotesque (Francke, c. 1874).
[Reynolds]
Royal Gothic was shown by Marder,
Luse & Co. in 1887. London Gothic (Keystone, 1910)
is “virtually a duplicate”. [McGrew 1993]
Royal Gothic Italic 2 was also known as
Charter Oak (Keystone,
1899).
Revived in a single heavy style in 2020 as Royal Gothic (Commercial Classics, used for
sample). See also More…
Released by the Patent Type-Founding Company around 1870 as Royal Gothic. [McNeil: The Visual History of Type] Later continued by successor Stevens, Shanks.
Fette Grotesk (Flinsch, 1885) appears to be a copy. The smaller sizes of Inseraten-Grotesque as sold by Roos & Junge (later as Inseraten-Grotesk by Stempel) are identical. The larger ones are from the similar Zeitungs-Grotesque (Francke, c. 1874). [Reynolds]
Royal Gothic was shown by Marder, Luse & Co. in 1887. London Gothic (Keystone, 1910) is “virtually a duplicate”. [McGrew 1993]
Royal Gothic Italic 2 was also known as Charter Oak (Keystone, 1899).
Revived in a single heavy style in 2020 as Royal Gothic (Commercial Classics, used for sample). See also Larsen (Domicile, 2022).
