This 18pt. Parsons font DOES NOT include the 36pt. long ascenders and descenders. These special characters require pivotal casting and will be available as a separate font.

PLEASE NOTE: A slight issue arose with this casting Centaur form the original matrices. When the matrices arrived at The Dale Guild I examined them and determined that they were not completely compatible with my machines. Working with the Rochester Institute of Technology I made a superficial alternation so that they could at least be cast from using a Barth caster.
The more serious alteration that was needed regarding the drive or depth of the matrix could not be done since it would inappropriately alter these historic artifacts.
Given the excitement and interest in this historic casting I have decided to still offer the type with the proviso that the type IS NOT Anglo/American type height (.918″), it is .006 of an inch over height at .924″. The height difference is the thickness of one sheet of tympan paper, the type can still be easily mixed with .918″ type with little to no make ready.

The 36pt. Verona capitals fonts are hand cast using The Dale Guild Type Foundry’s rebuilt MacKellar, Smiths, and Jordan medium pivotal caster. Hand cast and hand finished, these fonts of Verona mark the first pivotal cast fonts the Dale Guild has released in many years.

The talk is on February 22nd at 6:30pm at The Center for Book Arts. For more information about this talk or The Center for Book Arts other programs visit http://centerforbookarts.org/.

Hope to see you there.

MSC
 

The title page of Stanley Morison’s Fra Luca de Pacioli of Borgo S. Sepolcro, published by the Grolier Club in 1933, using Centaur Capitals.

The Rochester Institute of Technology was kind enough to allow The Dale Guild Type Foundry to borrow Bruce Rogers’ original matrices for Centaur Capitals so that new foundry type may be cast from them. Engraved by Robert Weibking in 1914 for use by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this is the first ever publicly-available casting from these historic matrices. For more on the interesting history of Centaur, and these matrices in particular, see Alexander Lawson’s Anatomy of a Typeface.  Look for the forth coming Typophiles publication The Noblest Roman, on the history of Centaur types by Jerry Kelly and Misha Beletsky.

The short video below offers a glimpse into the process of casting Centaur Capitals on the Barth Caster.

Information for Ordering

Fonts of 20-pt Centaur Capitals on a 24-pt body will be issued in a standard American Type Founders 10-A font scheme with points and figures. Each font will consist of seven 6-inch sort lines, weighing 3½ lbs total.