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William Hamilton Page
William Hamilton Page (1829–1909) was a type designer and owner of William Page & Company, a leading manufacturer of wood type for letterpress printing. Life and career Page worked as a printer for several newspapers before learning the trade of wood type manufacturing from John Cooley in South Windham, Connecticut. In 1856 he and James Bassett purchased the assets of the defunct H. &. J. Bill & Company and went into partnership as Page & Bassett. In 1859 he withdrew from this partnership and became partners with Samuel Mowry, forming William Page & Company, near Norwich, Connecticut. This firm quickly became the largest and most efficient manufacturer of wooden type in the United States. It was only in the 1880s that a serious rival, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company owned by J.E. Hamilton, emerged. When Page retired in 1891, he sold out to Hamilton for stock in that company, and Page's equipment and stock were consolidated with that of Hamilton in Two Rivers, Wisconsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilton, New Hampshire
Tilton is a town on the Winnipesaukee River in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,962 at the 2020 census, up from 3,567 at the 2010 census. It includes the villages of Tilton and Lochmere and part of the village of Winnisquam. Tilton is home to the Tilton School, a private preparatory school. History Originally the southern part of Sanbornton, the present area of Tilton was known as "Sanbornton Bridge" and "Bridge Village". These two names refer to the bridge, built in 1763, that crossed the Winnipesaukee River from Canterbury to Sanbornton and onto what is now Main Street in Tilton. In 1869, Sanbornton Bridge was set off and incorporated as Tilton, named in honor of Nathaniel Tilton (1726–1814), whose great-grandson Charles E. Tilton (1827–1901) was the owner of textile mills and the community's wealthiest citizen. Nathaniel Tilton established an iron foundry and the area's first hotel, the Dexter House. Charles E. Tilton donated many s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepperwood (typeface)
Pepperwood may refer to: *''Pepperwood'', an artist working in Switzerland *''Pepperwood Resorts'', different exclusive Private Resorts in Thailand e.g. Pepperwood Garden, Pepperwood Palms and Pepperwood Orchid *'' Zanthoxylum clava-herculis'', American Pepperwood *''Pseudowintera'', New Zealand Pepperwood *''Umbellularia californica'' *Pepperwood, California Pepperwood (formerly Barkdull) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Redcrest, at an elevation of 115 feet (35 m). Pepperwood is the northernmost community along the A ..., a small town in the United States *Pepperwood, episode of season 2 of New Girl {{dab, plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITC Florinda
ITC may stand for: Companies and corporations * Illinois Terminal Company, US railroad, reporting mark *ITC or ITC Entertainment, British TV company * International Typeface Corporation, now a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging * ITC Transmission, electric transmission company, Michigan, USA *Information Terminals Corporation, predecessor to Verbatim Corporation Tobacco companies *ITC (company), formerly Indian Tobacco Company, India **ITC Hotels * Iranian Tobacco Company Organizations *Independent Transport Commission, UK research charity * International Test Commission, Association to promote effective psychological testing and assessment policies * United States International Trade Commission, federal agency of the United States *International Tin Council, former organisation for tin producers in Cornwall and Malaysia *International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the WTO and the UN *Israel Tennis Centers * Committee of Union and Progress (İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Typeface Corporation
The International Typeface Corporation (ITC) was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin and Edward Rondthaler. The company was one of the world's first type foundries to have no history in the production of metal type. It is now a wholly owned brand or subsidiary of Monotype Imaging. History The company was founded to design, license and market typefaces for filmsetting and computer set types internationally. The company issued both new designs and revivals of older or classic faces, invariably re-cut to be suitable for digital typesetting use and produced in families of different weights. Although it is claimed that the designers took care to preserve the style and character of the original typefaces, several ITC revivals, such as ITC Bookman and ITC Garamond in particular, have received criticism that the end result was related in name only to the original faces. Among the company's notable type designers was Ed Benguiat, the creator of Tif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton (typeface)
Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilton (other), several Scottish, Irish and British peers, and some members of the judiciary, who may be referred to simply as ''Hamilton'' ** Clan Hamilton, an ancient Scottish kindred * Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States * Lewis Hamilton, a British Formula One driver *William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician for whom ''Hamiltonian mechanics'' is named * Hamílton (footballer) (born 1980), Togolese footballer Places Australia * Hamilton, New South Wales, suburb of Newcastle * Hamilton Hill, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Hamilton, South Australia * Hamilton, Tasmania * Hamilton, Victoria Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Font Bureau
The Font Bureau, Inc. or Font Bureau is a digital type foundry based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The foundry is one of the leading designers of typefaces, specializing in type designs for magazine and newspaper publishers. History Font Bureau was founded in 1989 by Roger Black and David Berlow. Before founding Font Bureau, Roger Black was an established publications designer and consultant. David Berlow is a noted type designer. ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Newsweek'', ''Esquire Magazine'', ''Rolling Stone'' and the ''Wall Street Journal'' rank among Font Bureau's client list. Apart from Black and Berlow, other prominent designers at Font Bureau have included Tobias Frere-Jones, later of Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Frere-Jones Type, and Cyrus Highsmith, later of Occupant Fonts and Morisawa. Matthew Carter has been a frequent collaborator with the foundry. In October 2009, news sources reported that Font Bureau was "suing NBC Universal for at least $2 million ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skeleton Antique
Skeleton Antique is a slab serif wooden letterpress typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are list of type ... designed by William Hamilton PageConsuegra, David, ''American Type Design & Designers,'' Allworth Press, New York City, pp. 204-213. and first shown in his company's 1865 catalog. The face is nearly monoline in its stroke width and lacks the over-ornamentation typical of both Page's faces and of other nineteenth century letterpress types. References *''Specimen Book and Price List of Printing Material.'' Palmer & Rey, San Francisco: 1892. {{reflist Slab serif typefaces Wood typefaces Digital typefaces 1865 introductions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Tuscan One
Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths ** Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths, also extinct **Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language **Gothic (Unicode block), a collection of Unicode characters of the Gothic alphabet Art and architecture * Gothic art, a Medieval art movement *Gothic architecture *Gothic Revival architecture (Neo-Gothic) ** Carpenter Gothic **Collegiate Gothic ** High Victorian Gothic Romanticism *Gothic fiction or Gothic Romanticism, a literary genre Entertainment * ''Gothic'' (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell * ''Gothic'' (series), a video game series originally developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios ** ''Gothic'' (video game), a 2001 video game developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios Modern culture and lifestyle *Goth subculture, a music-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juniper (typeface)
Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Juniperus'' ( ) of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on the taxonomy, between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa, throughout parts of western, central and southern Asia, east to eastern Tibet in the Old World, and in the mountains of Central America. The highest-known juniper forest occurs at an altitude of in southeastern Tibet and the northern Himalayas, creating one of the highest tree lines on earth. Description Junipers vary in size and shape from tall trees, tall, to columnar or low-spreading shrubs with long, trailing branches. They are evergreen with needle-like and/or scale-like leaves. They can be either monoecious or dioecious. The female seed cones are very distinctive, with fleshy, fruit-like coalescing scales which fuse together to form a berrylike structure ( galbulus), long, with one to 12 unwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birch (typeface)
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Red List of Threatened Species. They are a typically rather short-lived pioneer species widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in northern areas of temperate climates and in boreal climates. Description Birch species are generally small to medium-sized trees or shrubs, mostly of northern temperate and boreal climates. The simple leaves are alternate, singly or doubly serrate, feather-veined, petiolate and stipulate. They often appear in pairs, but these pairs are really borne on spur-like, two-leaved, lateral branchlets. The fruit is a small samara, although the wings may be obscure in some species. They differ from the alders (''Alnus'', another genus in the family) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironwood (typeface)
Ironwood is a common name for many woods or plants that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is heavier than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in English may or may not indicate a tree that yields such heavy wood. Some of the species with their common name * '' Acacia aulacocarpa'' (Brush ironwood) * ''Acacia estrophiolata'' (Southern ironwood), central Australia * '' Acacia excelsa'' (Ironwood) * ''Acacia melanoxylon'' (Ironwood) * ''Acacia stenophylla'' (Ironwood), Australia * ''Aegiphila martinicensis'' (Ironwood) * ''Afzelia africana'' (Ironwood) * '' Androstachys johnsonii'' (Lebombo ironwood), southeastern Africa and Madagascar * ''Allagoptera caudescens'', '' Borassus flabellifer'', ''Caryota urens'', '' Iriartea deltoidea'' Black Palm, Palmira wood (Black ironwood) * ''Argania spinosa'' (Morocco ironwood, Thorny, Prickly ironwood) * '' Astronium fraxinifolium'', '' Astr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponderosa (typeface)
Ponderosa may refer to: Places * Ponderosa, California, a census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States * Ponderosa, New Mexico, a census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States * Village of Ponderosa, a New Urbanism-inspired community in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States Entertainment * Fictional family of drug aficionados, punks, and cats, on the show ''It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'' * ''Ponderosa'' (TV series), a 2001–2002 television series that was the prequel to ''Bonanza'' * Ponderosa, fictional ranch bordering the northeast side of Lake Tahoe in the American television series '' Bonanza'' * ''Ponderosa'', a title used for reruns of the American television series '' Bonanza'' during the summer of 1972 * Ponderosa, an American Southern rock band Schools * Ponderosa Elementary School (South San Francisco), an elementary school located in South San Francisco, California, United States * Ponderosa High School (California), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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