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Bruce Old Style

Bruce Old Style

by Bitstream
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Bruce Old Style Font Family was designed by Sol Hess and published by Bitstream. Bruce Old Style contains 2 styles and family package options.

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About Bruce Old Style Font Family


This is the Bruce Foundry’s Old Style No.20, which was loosely based on the Miller & Richard Old Style. It was recut at Lanston under Sol Hess’ direction in 1909, and survives as the second text face in the Sears Roebuck Catalogue.

Designers: Sol Hess

Publisher: Bitstream

Foundry: Bitstream

Original Foundry: Bruce

Design Owner: Bitstream

MyFonts debut: Jan 1, 2000

Bruce Old Style

About Bitstream

Bitstream is known among type enthusiasts and professionals alike as being one of the companies that lead the way towards the democratization of type. For centuries, the type world had been the exclusive domain of skilled typographers who worked large, cumbersome presses. With the birth of digital type though, came a revolution in the industry that enabled Bitstream, one of the first digital type foundries, to help grow the desktop publishing industry. The company’s founders shared a vision in which desktop publishing and digital type would open up doors and allow for the access of previously exclusive typefaces to a broader public audience. Eventually, this idea of opening up the type market led to the development of fonts like Amerigo and New Lincoln Gothic; designs that played huge roles in the launching, and eventual success, of desktop publishing. With best-selling typefaces like Futura in its line up, this library made an enormous impact on the type industry and helped to form it into what it is today.

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