Skip to content

Forme
Grotesque

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

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

A

5   Adam & Eve Court
Oxford Circus, W1
 J. Taylor, 1817

B

2   Baches Row
Hoxton, N1
↳  Edmund Fry, 1805

C

7   Chiswell St
Islington EC1
↳  R. Austin, 1790

D

43–44   Drury Lane
Covent Garden, WC2
↳  I. Moore, 1781

John Bell's

British Library

1768 — 1795