HWT Roman Extended Fatface™ Font Download

The design of the first “Fat Face” is credited to Robert Thorne just after 1800 in England. It is considered to be the first type style designed specifically for display or jobbing, rather than for book work.

The first instance of Fat Face in wood type is found in the first wood type specimen book ever produced: Darius Wells, Letter Cutter 1828. This style was produced by all early wood type manufacturers.

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The style is derived from the high contrast, thick and thin Modern style of Bodoni and Didot developed only decades previously. The extended variation makes the face even more of a display type and not at all suitable for text.

This type of display type was used to compete with the new Lithographic process which allowed for the development of the poster as an artform unto itself.

This new digitization by Jim Lyles most closely follows the Wm Page cut.

The crisp outlines hold up at the largest point sizes you can imagine. This font contains a full CE character set.

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Archive Antique Extended Font Download

Extended display typeface.

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HWT Tuscan Extended Font Download

Tuscan wood types cover a fairly wide range of styles, and there is sometimes confusion over what is classified as a Gothic Tuscan and what is considered an Antique Tuscan. HWT American Chromatic and P22 Tuscan Expanded are more precisely faces of the Antique Tuscan variety.

Gothic Tuscans are generally absent of the heavy serifs typically associated with their Antique Tuscan brethren (although decorative bifurcation of terminals can imply serifs). Additional internal decoration with spikes along the stems gives some Tuscans their distinctive look‹, these faces are often described as “Circus Types.” More…

Tuscan Extended is an extremely wide design, with a distinctive slab crossbar running through the center of most characters.

Each letter is a complex system in its own right‹. This typeface is best used very large in short headline work. The style defies falling clearly into either the Antique Tuscan or Gothic Tuscan category.

The new HWT version of Tuscan Extended has been meticulously redrawn by Frank Grießhammer.

During production, he also incorporated a number of new letterforms, bringing the font to over 300 characters (including a full ASCII character set and Central European accented characters).

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MPI Aldine Extended Font Download

Based on wood type designed by William H. Page & Company in 1872, Aldine Extended is one of many variations within the Aldine family. The characters are extremely wide relative to their height, and have heavy, thick serifs.

Aldine was extremely popular in broadside printing during the late 19th century and conveys America’s enthusiastic westward expansion.

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Supra Extended Font Download

Supra Extended – designed by Gert Wiescher in 2013 – is the extended version to this new sans typeface family of eight weights. The extended version is designed for sheer elegance and has no italics because they didn't look nice to me.

The light and normal weights and the dominant x-height with its high ascenders make for easy reading of long copy.

The heavy and x-light weights are great for elegant headlines. More…

Supra is an OpenType family for professional typography with an extended character set of over 700 glyphs.

It supports more than 40 Central- and Eastern-European as well as many Western languages. Ligatures, different figures, fractions, currency symbols and smallcaps can be found in all cuts.

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Vienna Extended Font Download

Talented Dutch graphic designer Anthony De Meester created this light, elegant sans serif typeface. Although simplicity is the hallmark of this design, it can be used most effectively where a look of regal elegance is desired.

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Archive Lightface Extended Font Download

family of 1 font from Archive Type

Extended serif display typeface

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