Wood Type: Rob Roy Kelly

ROB ROY KELLY

March 15, 1925 – January 23, 2004

American Wood Type: 1828–1900
Dust jacket (front, back and flaps) and selected pages

Google Images

Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design

Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT Libraries

Graphic Design Archive Online

The University of Texas at Austin

Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type

The New York Times
February 1, 2004

Rob Roy Kelly, 78, Specialist in Wood Type

(Next post on Monday: E.G. Lutz)

Wood Type: Morgan Press

Douglas Morgan, publisher

John Alcorn, designer
Wood 2 Catalogue

Catalogue cover and selected pages

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Alphabets: Dan X. Solo

DANIEL “DAN” X. SOLO

April 29, 1928 – May 15, 2012

Links to articles and video

Alameda’s Neptune Beach

CreativePro.com

Imprint

Justia.com

My Fonts

Oakland Magic Circle

The Type Heritage Project

Urban Influence

I have four of Dan X. Solo’s books, Art Nouveau Display Alphabets, Circus Alphabets, Condensed Alphabets, and Victorian Display Alphabets. When I wanted to photostat an alphabet, sometimes it was a chore to make the page level because the book, in some instances, did not lie flat. So, I used an X-acto knife to cut off the book’s spine, then used a three-hole punch on the pages, and put the pages into a binder. I used some of the wood type alphabets, from his books, on one of my Christmas cards.


(Next Monday: Wood type and the Morgan Press)

Wood Type: Ampersand

My collection of wood type ampersands.

(Next post on Monday: Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel)