“Litho Antique [was] cut by William Schraubstadter
for Inland Type Foundry and introduced in January 1910, when it was
advertised as the “newest typeface; one of our best; closely
imitating steelplate and lithography.” […] Morris Benton of ATF
added several characters to the old Inland face, matrices of which
were then in ATF’s vaults, and it was reissued in 1931 as
Rockwell Antique. But Benton saw that something more
was needed, and redrew it as Stymie Bold (q.v.) in the same year. The
alternate characters which were added to Rockwell are
the same ones now shown with Stymie Bold. Monotype
copied Rockwell [Antique] but erroneously called it
Stymie Bold in some literature, and there has been
confusion between the two faces ever since […] English Monotype has
several weights of Rockwell, a square More…
“Litho Antique [was] cut by William Schraubstadter for Inland Type Foundry and introduced in January 1910, when it was advertised as the “newest typeface; one of our best; closely imitating steelplate and lithography.” […] Morris Benton of ATF added several characters to the old Inland face, matrices of which were then in ATF’s vaults, and it was reissued in 1931 as Rockwell Antique. But Benton saw that something more was needed, and redrew it as Stymie Bold (q.v.) in the same year. The alternate characters which were added to Rockwell are the same ones now shown with Stymie Bold. Monotype copied Rockwell [Antique] but erroneously called it Stymie Bold in some literature, and there has been confusion between the two faces ever since […] English Monotype has several weights of Rockwell, a square serif family which differs from this face and should not be confused with it.” [McGrew 1993]
