FormeGrotesque
Weights
8
Styles
16
Available
Variable
Stylistic Sets
19
Basinghall St.
↑ Forme Grotesque ExtraLight
Catherine St.
↑ Forme Grotesque Light
GOUGH SQUARE
↑ Forme Grotesque Regular
Myddleton St.
↑ Forme Grotesque Medium
SNOW HILL
↑ Forme Grotesque SemiBold
Red Lion Ct.
↑ Forme Grotesque Bold
SUN STREET
↑ Forme Grotesque ExtraBold
Wild St.
↑ Forme Grotesque Black
Bowling Green Ln.
↑ Forme Grotesque ExtraLight Italic
DORSET STREET
↑ Forme Grotesque Light Italic
Middle Row
↑ Forme Grotesque Italic
QUEEN STREET
↑ Forme Grotesque Medium Italic
Ray Street
↑ Forme Grotesque SemiBold Italic
VERULAM STREET
↑ Forme Grotesque Bold Italic
Vine Street
↑ Forme Grotesque ExtraBold Italic
WOOD STREET
↑ Forme Grotesque Black Italic
FOUNDRIES
No.
1
Fry Foundry
15
2
George Chambers
73 1/2
3
John Haddon & Co.
168
4
J. H. King & Co
199
5
William Henry Muggleton
206
6
Universal Typecasting Co.
252
7
Printers’ Type Foundry Ltd
271
8
Yendall & Co.
326
No. 6a
Wild St
WC2
Pouchée & Jennings,
1810–23.
No. 52
Blackstock Rd.
WC2
C. Richards & Son,
1964–93
No. 15
Fry Foundry
c. 1785–88
Fry Foundry
c. 1785–88
Worship St
London EC2
St Luke's
👉 Old St.
44–46 Southwark Street, SE1
Steven Shanks & Son Ltd, formed by merger in 1933 of the foundry of R.H. Stevens (a grandson of Vincent Figgins I) with P.M. Shanks and Co. and, by the time it moved to Coleman Fields in 1971, one of the last two surviving old English letter foundries. The Foundry's materials, notably the Figgins punches and matrices, are preserved by The St Bride Printing Library.
12 Strand, WC2
Richard Watts, 1816 – 44, succeeded by his son W.M. Watts, whose oriental and other exotic typefaces descended through Gilbert & Rivington to Messrs Clowes & Sons
Steven Shanks & Son Ltd, formed by merger in 1933 of the foundry of R.H. Stevens (a grandson of Vincent Figgins I) with P.M. Shanks and Co. and, by the time it moved to Coleman Fields in 1971, one of the last two surviving old English letter foundries. The Foundry's materials, notably the Figgins punches and matrices, are preserved by The St Bride Printing Library.
12 Strand, WC2
Richard Watts, 1816 – 44, succeeded by his son W.M. Watts, whose oriental and other exotic typefaces descended through Gilbert & Rivington to Messrs Clowes & Sons
A
5 Adam & Eve Court
Oxford Circus, W1
↳ J. Taylor, 1817
Oxford Circus, W1
↳ J. Taylor, 1817
B
2 Baches Row
Hoxton, N1
↳ Edmund Fry, 1805
Hoxton, N1
↳ Edmund Fry, 1805
C
7 Chiswell St
Islington EC1
↳ R. Austin, 1790
Islington EC1
↳ R. Austin, 1790
D
43–44 Drury Lane
Covent Garden, WC2
↳ I. Moore, 1781
Covent Garden, WC2
↳ I. Moore, 1781
John Bell's
British Library
1768 — 1795