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The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces
The author of many books on typography, Dan X. Solo was also the proprietor of his own typography shop in Oakland, California — an establishment dedicated to unusual typography and special effects. This comprehensive catalog offers graphic designers a dazzling selection of over 4,000 typefaces and optical effects available from Solotype Typographers. Here, in Solo's words, is "a great cast of characters" — the alphabet — abetted by a cornucopia of typographical ideas and an endless resource of letters, words, phrases, slogans, logos, humorous comments, headlines, and graphic symbols. Individual sections of the book display a rich variety of typefaces in categories such as Condensed, Vi...
Showcard Alphabets
Entertaining, immediately usable typefaces include Rocky Horror, Roughneck, Marker Magic, more. All have uppercase alphabets; many contain punctuation marks, lowercase letters, and numerals.
Extra-bold Alphabets
Comprehensive archive of especially bold fonts ideal for advertising, signs, posters, announcements, etc. Banker's Roman, Dolmen, Elizabethan, Goudy Heavyface, many more. Most fonts include upper- and lowercase letters, punctuation, numerals.
Outline Alphabets
Here's an attractive treasury of alphabets that provides graphic artists with sources of design opportunities. For his latest collection of new and imaginative typefaces, typographer and type historian Dan Solo has compiled an impressive volume of eye-catching, versatile, and royalty-free outline alphabet styles. Reproduced here in sharp black-and-white are 100 complete fonts, featuring expressive faces in a variety of styles: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Victorian, contemporary, and many more. Included are the stately Albertus Outline, the classic Bauhaus Outline, charming Gill Floriated, and exotic Mandarin Outline, the stark and simple Ben Franklin Open, the commanding Normandie Open, appealing Washington Outline, and the optically engrossing Pluto Outline. Most fonts include both upper- and lower-case letters; many also feature numbers and punctuation marks. And equally important, the inexpensive, attention-getting letters are ready for immediate use on signs and posters, in newsletters, and countless other graphic projects.
Gothic and Old English Alphabets
100 royalty-free alphabets: Blackstone, Dolbey, Germania, 97 more — with many lowercases, numerals, punctuation marks.
Grunge Alphabets
Offbeat, eye-catching typefaces add a sharp, contemporary look to display ads, posters, signs, menus, and other graphic projects. Fonts include the jagged-edged style of Ransom Note, playful Kidprint and Fingerpaint, angular Desert Rat, whimsical Crazy Eights, and dozens more: Ninja, Hardscrabble, Everglades, Double Take, Bushman, Bramble, and Aspodistra.
Special Effects and Topical Alphabets
The alphabet is the message. With these special effects and topical alphabets, you can advertise or identify a product or service in lettering that reinforces your message. For example: letters shaped like chopsticks; letters made up of logs; letters made up of bones; letters frozen in ice; letters with stars and stripes. These are just a few of the alphabets you can use from the 100 fonts selected by Dan X. Solo from the Solotype Typographers Catalog. All the fonts appear in upper case, while many also have lower case and/or numerals. Whether your message is about the Fourth of July, cool refreshment, outdoor life, modern technology, summer, spring, winter, or a hundred other moods and occasions, you'll find in this collection an alphabet that tells the story. The typographic designs may be sophisticated or naïve, but all are eminently useful and difficult to find in usual sources.
100 Decorative Condensed Alphabets
Handy archive of royalty-free typefaces ideal for ads, signs, menus, etc. Calico Casual, Designer Raleigh, Easter Gothic, Galaxy One, many other fonts. Use with any copier for an endless source of condensed type.
3-D and Shaded Alphabets
Emblazon your message in 3-D or shaded lettering. Eye-catching typefaces in 100 amazingly diverse fonts.
