A beveled/dimensonal all-caps sans cast by Besley (Fann Street
Foundry) in c.1860. Name unknown.
Two letters are reproduced as #210 in Nicolete Gray’s
Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces (2nd ed.,
1976).
Similar designs are shown by Dave Geer as
5 Line Gothic Condensed Octagon Shade (wood) and
credited to Wells & Webb, and in Sign Writing and Glass
Embossing (1890) as
Gothic Condensed Shaded (lettering?).
Wood Type Customs offers a contemporary wood type version based
on the Wells & Webb cut (used for sample).
A phototype version is shown in Dan X. Solo’s Victorian
Display Alphabets (Dover, 1976) as Arcadian.
Davison Dimensional (Photo-Lettering, 1969)
is a less direct phototype adaptation. It was digitized as
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A beveled/dimensonal all-caps sans cast by Besley (Fann Street Foundry) in c.1860. Name unknown. Two letters are reproduced as #210 in Nicolete Gray’s Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces (2nd ed., 1976).
Similar designs are shown by Dave Geer as 5 Line Gothic Condensed Octagon Shade (wood) and credited to Wells & Webb, and in Sign Writing and Glass Embossing (1890) as Gothic Condensed Shaded (lettering?).
Wood Type Customs offers a contemporary wood type version based on the Wells & Webb cut (used for sample).
A phototype version is shown in Dan X. Solo’s Victorian Display Alphabets (Dover, 1976) as Arcadian. Davison Dimensional (Photo-Lettering, 1969) is a less direct phototype adaptation. It was digitized as Double D NF (Nick’s Fonts, 2010).
In 1992, David Rakowski made a free digitization named Tejaratchi with a limited character set (A–Z only), probably based on the showing of Arcadian.
