“Inspired by lettering used by the Saturday Evening
Post […] and has been credited to Lewis Buddy, a former Post
artist and letterer, but ATF says it was designed ‘partly’ by
Morris Benton, about 1898. Gerry Powell, director of typographic
design for ATF in the 1940s, says, ‘Roycroft was first known as
Buddy, changed when it was adopted by Elbert Hubbard for the
Roycroft Press.’ […] Roycroft Open was cut in 1902,
probably from the same patterns as the parent face. Roycroft
Tinted is a very unusual face, in which the typeface is
engraved with the equivalent of a halftone screen of about 25
percent tone value, with a black shadow on the right side; this
typeface was cut by the Dickinson Type Foundry branch of ATF in
Boston, and includes the same special characters as
Roycroft.” [McGrew 1993]
See Croft More…
“Inspired by lettering used by the Saturday Evening Post […] and has been credited to Lewis Buddy, a former Post artist and letterer, but ATF says it was designed ‘partly’ by Morris Benton, about 1898. Gerry Powell, director of typographic design for ATF in the 1940s, says, ‘Roycroft was first known as Buddy, changed when it was adopted by Elbert Hubbard for the Roycroft Press.’ […] Roycroft Open was cut in 1902, probably from the same patterns as the parent face. Roycroft Tinted is a very unusual face, in which the typeface is engraved with the equivalent of a halftone screen of about 25 percent tone value, with a black shadow on the right side; this typeface was cut by the Dickinson Type Foundry branch of ATF in Boston, and includes the same special characters as Roycroft.” [McGrew 1993]
See Croft (Stiggy & Sands, 2018) for a digital revival.
