Cast by the Dickinson Type Foundry as Gothic Shade
circa 1850. A.k.a. Tombstone. A similar design was
released by Fonderie Générale around the same time, which may have
been the source for Dickinson. [THP] Shown by
Schelter & Giesecke in 1862 as Zierschriften 155 and
156, and by Haas as Caractères de Fantasie
1096. [Reynolds]
The name based on the racist stereotype (see Jim Crow on
Wikipedia) was introduced by ATF with their 1933 and 1949
recastings. [McGrew 1993]
Adopted by Photo-Lettering for phototypesetting before 1965
[PLINC 1965] and by Mecanorma for
dry-transfer lettering in 1967. [1967 ad]. Lettergraphics offered a
variant called Sea
Crow Caps with a wave motif in the fill. [Lettergraphics 1968–1975]
Jim
Dandy is one digital revival and has been used for the
sample. See also More…
Cast by the Dickinson Type Foundry as Gothic Shade circa 1850. A.k.a. Tombstone. A similar design was released by Fonderie Générale around the same time, which may have been the source for Dickinson. [THP] Shown by Schelter & Giesecke in 1862 as Zierschriften 155 and 156, and by Haas as Caractères de Fantasie 1096. [Reynolds]
The name based on the racist stereotype (see Jim Crow on Wikipedia) was introduced by ATF with their 1933 and 1949 recastings. [McGrew 1993]
Adopted by Photo-Lettering for phototypesetting before 1965 [PLINC 1965] and by Mecanorma for dry-transfer lettering in 1967. [1967 ad]. Lettergraphics offered a variant called Sea Crow Caps with a wave motif in the fill. [Lettergraphics 1968–1975]
Jim Dandy is one digital revival and has been used for the sample. See also VTC Ruby (Vocal, 2021), an interpretation that comes in four styles for chromatic layering.
