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    <title>Romanesque in use</title>
    <link>https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque</link>
    <description>Romanesque in use. Designed in 1874 for MacKellar, Smiths &amp; Jordan. [Clouse] [Reichardt 2011]

Adopted for phototype as Photo-Romanesque [PLINC 1960] and later as Xenotype 3835 (Romanesque) [PLINC 1965] a.k.a. Phydian Xenotype, now with a shadow line for the lowercase letters, too. [PLINC One Liner 1971] Another, more faithful version is shown as Romanesque in Dan X. Solo’s Victorian Display Alphabets (Dover, 1976).

Durham Abbey NF is a digital revival (used for sample).</description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, Signet]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72458/the-french-lieutenant-s-woman-by-john-fowles-</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Photo(s)  by Make It Old on Flickr.<br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72458/the-french-lieutenant-s-woman-by-john-fowles-"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/269/268794/upto-700xauto/69b61081/54826366293_0148d32780_o.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44238709@N07/54826366293/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Uploaded to Flickr by Make It Old and tagged with “romanesque”</span>. </span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/10/9166/440/4/61921ff8/romanesque.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7759/century-expanded"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/8/7759/400/4/6a536055/century-expanded.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7603/haas-inserat-grotesk-neue-aurora-viii"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/1/956/440/4/5fdfd1a5/haas-inserat-grotesk-neue-aurora-viii.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/303/news-gothic"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/1/303/400/4/6a57a77a/news-gothic.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>Lots of all-caps <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque" data-entity-code-id="44882" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Romanesque</a></strong> for the cover of Signet W4479, 1970. Originally designed by <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/1284/herman-ihlenburg" data-entity-code-id="1284" data-entity-code-type="TypeDesigner">Herman Ihlenburg</a> in 1874 for <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/1324/mackellar-smiths-jordan" target="_self">MacKellar, Smiths &amp; Jordan</a>, the bold condensed face with long serifs, split shade and decorative tendrils was revived by <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/130/photo-lettering" data-entity-code-id="130" data-entity-code-type="Foundry">Photo-Lettering</a> by 1960.</p>

<p>About the book, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Lieutenant%27s_Woman">Wikipedia</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><cite>The French Lieutenant’s Woman</cite> is a 1969 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature">postmodern</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fiction">historical fiction</a> novel by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowles">John Fowles</a>. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles’s authority in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature">Victorian literature</a>, both following and critiquing many of the conventions of period novels.</p>

<p>The book was the author's third, after <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collector">The Collector</a></em> (1963), and <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magus_(novel)">The Magus</a></em> (1965). […]</p>

<p>The novel was adapted as a 1981 film, written by playwright <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter">Harold Pinter</a> and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Reisz">Karel Reisz</a>. The film starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Streep">Meryl Streep</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Irons">Jeremy Irons</a>.</p>
</blockquote><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72458/the-french-lieutenant-s-woman-by-john-fowles-">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Vandal by Richard O’Connor (Popular Library, 1962)]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43651/the-vandal-by-richard-o-connor-popular-librar</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/12/florian-hardwig">Florian Hardwig</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43651/the-vandal-by-richard-o-connor-popular-librar"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/152/151255/upto-700xauto/69b57ad2/The%20Vandal%20front.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/174243959089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ebay.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">earl14326</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/10/9166/440/4/61921ff8/romanesque.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/303/news-gothic"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/1/303/400/4/6a57a77a/news-gothic.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1591/alternate-gothic"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/2/1591/400/4/6a247a01/alternate-gothic.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>In 1962, Photo-Lettering, Inc. issued <cite>Art Nouveau Xenotypes 1895–1905</cite>, a large collection of revivals of turn-of-the-century alphabets and typefaces. One of these “Xenotypes” added to their catalog around this time was No. 3835, an adaptation of <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque" data-entity-code-id="44882" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Romanesque</a></strong>, originally designed by <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/1284/herman-ihlenburg" data-entity-code-id="1284" data-entity-code-type="TypeDesigner">Herman Ihlenburg</a> in 1874. The cover of the shown paperback edition of <cite>The Vandal</cite> from 1962 must have been an early application of this revival.</p>

<p>The cover art is by <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/designers/4107/mitchell-hooks" data-entity-code-id="4107" data-entity-code-type="Designer">Mitchell Hooks</a> (1923–2013). From the back cover:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>Marius the Vandal, professional soldier, fought hard and well for the Byzantine Emperor. His services were rewarded with rank and privilege seldom given an outlander.</p>

<p>But jealous.eyes watched his rise to power, and court intrigues caught him off-guard as no battlefield maneuver ever could. When he fell in love with the Emperor’s favorite maiden, he was sent away on a clearly hopeless military campaign before the sweetness of their first embrace had left him. The girl was imprisoned in a distant convint …</p>
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<p></p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43651/the-vandal-by-richard-o-connor-popular-librar"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/152/151256/upto-700xauto/69b57ad2/The%20Vandal%20back.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/174243959089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ebay.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">earl14326</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>The secondary typefaces are <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/303/news-gothic" data-entity-code-id="303" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">News Gothic</a> Condensed</strong> and <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1591/alternate-gothic" data-entity-code-id="1591" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Alternate Gothic</a></strong>.</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43651/the-vandal-by-richard-o-connor-popular-librar">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Florian Hardwig</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells (Signet, 1963)]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42686/the-rise-of-silas-lapham-by-william-dean-howe</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/12/florian-hardwig">Florian Hardwig</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42686/the-rise-of-silas-lapham-by-william-dean-howe"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/148/147242/upto-700xauto/69b57715/16815881433_88dd0bcec9_o_d.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44238709@N07/16815881433/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Uploaded to Flickr by Make It Old and tagged with “romanesque”</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA</a></span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/10/9166/440/4/61921ff8/romanesque.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/5117/times-new-roman"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/36/5117/400/4/6a4a4c97/times-new-roman.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>Like <a href="http://fontsinuse.com/uses/42685/the-egoist-by-george-meredith-signet-1963"><cite>The Egoist</cite> (CT 191)</a>, <cite>The Rise of Silas Lapham</cite> (CT 155) is a paperback edition published by Signet Classics in 1963 with an illustration by <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/designers/16909/saul-lambert" data-entity-code-id="16909" data-entity-code-type="Designer">Saul Lambert</a>. The typeface is the same, too: this time, <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque" data-entity-code-id="44882" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Romanesque</a></strong> is used exclusively in caps. The cover designer very likely worked with the film adaptation named <cite>Xenotype 3835</cite>, added to Photo-Lettering’s library around 1962. Another version of this 1870s typeface is shown in Dan X. Solo’s <cite>Victorian Display Alphabets</cite> (Dover, 1976).</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Silas_Lapham"><cite>The Rise of Silas Lapham</cite></a> is a novel by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dean_Howells">William Dean Howells</a> and was first published in 1885.</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42686/the-rise-of-silas-lapham-by-william-dean-howe">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Florian Hardwig</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Nashville Country Singers – Rose Garden: Country Hits of ’71 album art]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43648/the-nashville-country-singers-rose-garden-cou</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Photo(s)  by Bart Solenthaler on Flickr.<br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43648/the-nashville-country-singers-rose-garden-cou"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/152/151244/upto-700xauto/69b57ad2/51674327698_2de8863730_4k.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartsol/51674327698/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Uploaded to Flickr by Bart Solenthaler and tagged with “romanesque”, “kabel” and “franklingothic”</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/10/9166/440/4/61921ff8/romanesque.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7697/kabel-black"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/8/7697/400/4/6a2ed67d/kabel-black.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/35/franklin-gothic"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/8/7745/440/4/600bc9f1/franklin-gothic.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>A bichromatic use of <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque" data-entity-code-id="44882" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Romanesque</a></strong>, with yellow letter bodies and black shadow lines and tendrils, further embellished with flowers, for an album with cover versions of country hits. The descending swash <strong>R</strong> might be custom. From the back cover:</p>

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<p>’71 … the beginning of another year of great country music pleasure. A year when country music will continue to spread its “simplicity” and “honest down-home flavor”.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Recorded by the Nashville Country Singers, <cite>Rose Garden: Country Hits of ’71</cite> was released by Mountain Dew Records in 1971.</p>

<p>[<a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/6177138-The-Nashville-Country-Singers-Rose-Garden-Country-Hits-Of-71">More info on Discogs</a>]</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43648/the-nashville-country-singers-rose-garden-cou">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Egoist by George Meredith (Signet, 1963)]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42685/the-egoist-by-george-meredith-signet-1963</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/12/florian-hardwig">Florian Hardwig</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42685/the-egoist-by-george-meredith-signet-1963"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/148/147241/upto-700xauto/69b57715/16273403581_c73a05f866_o_d.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44238709@N07/16273403581/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Uploaded to Flickr by Make It Old and tagged with “romanesque”</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/10/9166/440/4/61921ff8/romanesque.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/5117/times-new-roman"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/36/5117/400/4/6a4a4c97/times-new-roman.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>A Victorian typeface for a book by an author from the Victorian era: <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque" data-entity-code-id="44882" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Romanesque</a></strong> was designed by <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/1284/herman-ihlenburg" data-entity-code-id="1284" data-entity-code-type="TypeDesigner">Herman Ihlenburg</a> (1843–1905) for <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/1324/mackellar-smiths-jordan" data-entity-code-id="1324" data-entity-code-type="Foundry">MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan</a> in 1874. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egoist_(novel)"><cite>The Egoist</cite></a> is a novel written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meredith">George Meredith</a> (1828–1909) and first published in 1879. This is the Signet Classics paperback edition from 1963, with a cover illustration by <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/designers/16909/saul-lambert" data-entity-code-id="16909" data-entity-code-type="Designer">Saul Lambert</a>.</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42685/the-egoist-by-george-meredith-signet-1963">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Florian Hardwig</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[1964 Sunbeam Imp Sportsedan ad]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/15147/1964-sunbeam-imp-sportsedan-ad</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/4/stephen-coles">Stephen Coles</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/15147/1964-sunbeam-imp-sportsedan-ad"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/46476/upto-700xauto/69b51975/1/jpeg/30771598864_874b557bd8_k.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/30771598864/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Scan by Alden Jewell</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7471/brodovitch-albro"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/3/2139/440/4/570e2149/brodovitch-albro.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44882/romanesque"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/10/9166/440/4/61921ff8/romanesque.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/48579/trade-gothic-extended"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/314/48579/400/4/6a37ff86/trade-gothic-extended.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/76/akzidenz-grotesk"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/1/894/440/4/570e2072/akzidenz-grotesk.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7251/unidentified-typeface"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/1/591/440/4/570e2042/unidentified-typeface.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>I can’t identify two of the styles in the main headline — perhaps they are hand lettered, not type — but the face for the car model is unmistakably <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7471/brodovitch-albro"><strong>Brodovitch Albro</strong></a>.</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/15147/1964-sunbeam-imp-sportsedan-ad">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Stephen Coles</author>
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