Designed by Herman Ihlenburg for MS&J and patented on March 12, 1878. Glyptic No. 2 (lighter) and Glyptic Shaded (all caps) were released at the same time. Stephenson Blake had the original style as Monumental in c. 1884. [Gray]

Photo-Lettering had a phototype adaptation. [PLINC 1965] Glyptic Shaded was adopted by Headliners as part of the Morgan Press Collection as F 203.

Glyptic DJR (2022) is a digital interpretation of the original style. Glyptic Shaded was digitized as OPTI Morgan TwentyNine (Castcraft, 1990–1991).