The first comprehensive type family. Designed by Bertram Goodhue, assisted by Hannibal Ingalls Kimball, director of the
Cheltenham Press, who suggested and supervised the face. [Frazier
1925] Further refined by ATF’s
chief designer Morris Fuller Benton (some sources suggest
Joseph W. Phinney). Trial cuttings were made as
early as 1899, but it was not completed until about 1902, and
patented in 1904 by Kimball. Benton produced Cheltenham
Bold in 1904 and a score of variations up to 1913. Linotype,
Monotype, and Ludlow each have duplicates of a dozen or more
Cheltenhams, while Intertype has the same under the
name Cheltonian [McGrew 1993].
ATF produced 23 styles in total: Cheltenham
Oldstyle w/ Oldstyle Italic (incl. swash alts)
and Bold (1904), Bold Italic, Bold
Condensed, Bold Outline, and Wide
(1905), Bold Condensed Italic, Bold Extra
Condensed, and Bold Extended (1906), Bold
Extra Condensed Title, Inline, Inline
Extra Condensed, and Inline Extended (1907),
Medium w/ Medium Italic and
Oldstyle Condensed (1910), Extrabold,
Bold Shaded w/ Bold Shaded Italic (1912),
Medium Condensed, Medium Expanded, and
Extrabold Shaded (1913) [Reichardt 2011]. Additions by others
include Robert Hunter Middleton’s Cheltenham
Cursive (swash caps) for Ludlow, Sol
Hess’s Wide Italic for Monotype, Linotype’s Extra Condensed Italic, and
Intertype’s Cheltonian Medium Condensed
Italic [McGrew 1993] [Wikipedia].
Very successful and imported/copied by many foundries (w/
varying style ranges), including by Barnhart
Brothers & Spindler, FTF,
Typefoundry Amsterdam, Ludlow, Weisert, Pavyers
& Bullens, Sunity, Caslon (as Cheltenham Old Style),
Fonderie
Olive (as Americaines Nouvelles), Slévárna
písem (as Anglický Medieval), Nebiolo (as Bodonia), Western
Type Foundry (as Chesterfield), Wimble (as Christchurch Old Style),
Hansen (as Craftsman Old Style),
Van
Loey-Nouri (as Gauloises), (English) Monotype (as Gloucester), Woellmer and Idźkowski (as Lessing-Antiqua),
Schriftguss (as Pfeil-Antiqua),
Fondografica (as Piave), Gujarati (as Ranada), Vanderborght (as Renaissance),
Flinsch (as Roosevelt), Stevens,
Shanks (as Sandringham Old Style), Fausto
Gallico (as Serie Savoia), AG für
Schriftgießerei u. M. (as Titus), Klinkhardt and later Berthold (as Toskana), Roos &
Junge (as Union), Gans
(as Veneciana), and Pierallini (as Serie Verona) [More…
The first comprehensive type family. Designed by Bertram Goodhue, assisted by Hannibal Ingalls Kimball, director of the Cheltenham Press, who suggested and supervised the face. [Frazier 1925] Further refined by ATF’s chief designer Morris Fuller Benton (some sources suggest Joseph W. Phinney). Trial cuttings were made as early as 1899, but it was not completed until about 1902, and patented in 1904 by Kimball. Benton produced Cheltenham Bold in 1904 and a score of variations up to 1913. Linotype, Monotype, and Ludlow each have duplicates of a dozen or more Cheltenhams, while Intertype has the same under the name Cheltonian [McGrew 1993].
ATF produced 23 styles in total: Cheltenham Oldstyle w/ Oldstyle Italic (incl. swash alts) and Bold (1904), Bold Italic, Bold Condensed, Bold Outline, and Wide (1905), Bold Condensed Italic, Bold Extra Condensed, and Bold Extended (1906), Bold Extra Condensed Title, Inline, Inline Extra Condensed, and Inline Extended (1907), Medium w/ Medium Italic and Oldstyle Condensed (1910), Extrabold, Bold Shaded w/ Bold Shaded Italic (1912), Medium Condensed, Medium Expanded, and Extrabold Shaded (1913) [Reichardt 2011]. Additions by others include Robert Hunter Middleton’s Cheltenham Cursive (swash caps) for Ludlow, Sol Hess’s Wide Italic for Monotype, Linotype’s Extra Condensed Italic, and Intertype’s Cheltonian Medium Condensed Italic [McGrew 1993] [Wikipedia].
Very successful and imported/copied by many foundries (w/ varying style ranges), including by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, FTF, Typefoundry Amsterdam, Ludlow, Weisert, Pavyers & Bullens, Sunity, Caslon (as Cheltenham Old Style), Fonderie Olive (as Americaines Nouvelles), Slévárna písem (as Anglický Medieval), Nebiolo (as Bodonia), Western Type Foundry (as Chesterfield), Wimble (as Christchurch Old Style), Hansen (as Craftsman Old Style), Van Loey-Nouri (as Gauloises), (English) Monotype (as Gloucester), Woellmer and Idźkowski (as Lessing-Antiqua), Schriftguss (as Pfeil-Antiqua), Fondografica (as Piave), Gujarati (as Ranada), Vanderborght (as Renaissance), Flinsch (as Roosevelt), Stevens, Shanks (as Sandringham Old Style), Fausto Gallico (as Serie Savoia), AG für Schriftgießerei u. M. (as Titus), Klinkhardt and later Berthold (as Toskana), Roos & Junge (as Union), Gans (as Veneciana), and Pierallini (as Serie Verona) [Reichardt 2011] [Wetzig 1926–40]. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. had a wood type version [1938 specimen].
See also Berthold’s Sorbonne, Stephenson Blake’s Winchester, and Krebs’s Katalog-Antiqua.
ITC Cheltenham (1975) is a revision with a larger x-height.
