Sol Hess

Typefaces designed by Sol Hess

• Hess Title + Italic
• * Hess Title Italic
• Bookman series based on an oldstyle antique face designed by A.C. Phemister for the Scottish foundry of Miller & Richard about 1860.
• * Bookman Oldstyle Condensed
• * New Bookman
• Jefferson Gothic, alternate characters for Benton's News Gothic Extra Condensed. Also cast by Baltimore Type & Composition Company as Tourist Extra Condensed.
• Cochin series, based on the original by the G. Peignot et Fils foundry in Paris.
• * Cochin
• * Cochin Italic
• * Cochin Bold + Bold Italic
• * Cochin Open
• * Cochin Bold Tooled, was designed in house by Monotype, probably by Hess.
• Goudy Old Style series, all based on Frederic Goudy's Old Style
• * Swash capitals for Goudy Bold Italic
• * Swash capitals for Goudy Handtooled Italic
• * Goudy Heavy Face Open
• * Goudy Heavy Face Condensed
• * Goudy Text Shaded, was designed in house by Monotype, probably by Hess.
• Hess Old Style, based on faces by Nicolas Jenson.
• * Hess Old Style Italic
• Hess Bold, a companion face for Goudy's Goudy Light.
• * Hess Bold Italic
• Italian Old Style Wide, designed as a companion to Goudy's Italian Old Style.
• Scotch Roman series based on faces cut by the Scottish foundry of Alexander Wilson & Son before 1833.
• * Scotch Open Shaded Italic
• * Swash initials for Scotch Roman Italic
• Kennerley Open Capitals, designed as a companion to Goudy's Kennerley Open.
• Heavyface Condensed
• Alternate Gothic Modernized, thirteen alternate characters for Benton's Alternate Gothic No. 1.
• Cooper Tooled, based upon Oz Cooper's Cooper Hilite, though with the white line on the opposite side.
• Broadway series
• * Broadway Engraved
• * Lowercase letters for Benton's Broadway
• Tourist Gothic series
• * Tourist Gothic , adapted from on Barnhart Brothers & Spindler's Modern Condensed Gothic by including a set of alternate rounded capitals.
• * Tourist Gothic Italic
• * Tourist Extra Condensed was actually just Baltimore Type's re-branding of Hess's Jefferson Gothic.
• Bodoni series
• * Bodoni Bold Panelled
• * Bodoni Bold Condensed
• Sans Serif series, based on Rudolf Koch’s Kabel.
• * Sans Serif Extrabold
• * Sans Serif Extrabold Condensed
• * Sans Serif Medium Condensed
• * Sans Serif Light Condensed
• * Sans Serif Lined
• Hadriano Stone Cut, an in-line version of Goudy's Hadriano Title.
• Pendrawn
• Hess Neobold
• Stymie series, based on Benton's Stymie
• * Stymie Extrabold
• * Stymie Medium Condensed
• * Stymie Extrabold Condensed
• * Stymie Light Condensed
• * Stymie Extrabold Italic
• Baskerville Bold, adapted from John Baskerville’s heavyface of 1757.
• Spire, capital letters only.
• Twentieth Century series
• * Twentieth Century Bold Italic
• * Twentieth Century Extrabold Italic
• * Twentieth Century Extrabold Condensed Italic
• * Twentieth Century Ultrabold
• * Twentieth Century Ultrabold Condensed
• * Twentieth Century Medium Condensed Italic
• * Twentieth Century Ultrabold Italic
• Century Bold Condensed Italic, based on Benton’s Century Bold.
• New Gothic Condensed lowercase
• Slimline, a knock off of Huxley Vertical.
• Onyx Italic, a companion to Gerry Powell’s Onyx
• Squareface, a variation of Stymie Extra Bold.
• Stylescript
• Post series, commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post and based upon E.J. Kitson’s hand lettering for that magazine.
• * Post Black Italic
• * Post Stout Italic
• * Ward Roman + Italic, based upon Memphis Light. Privately cast for use in the Montgomery Ward catalog.
• Alternate Gothic Italic, No. 2, an italic companion to Benton’s Alternate Gothic No. 2.
• Stationers Gothic series
• * Stationers Gothic Light
• * Stationers Gothic Bold
• * Stationers Gothic Medium
• Hess New Bookbold + Italic, an adaptation of Garamond Bold.
• Artscript, based on the calligraphy of Domingo Maria de Servidori of Madrid from 1798.
• Cheltenham Wide Italic, a companion to Goodhue’s Cheltenham.
• Poster, also called Hess Poster.
• Hess Monoblack', never listed in regular specimen books, only on a “specimen request sheet.”

  Typefaces adapted for Monotype composition by Sol Hess

• Bruce Oldstyle, based on a face produced by the Bruce Foundry about 1869.
• * Bruce Oldstyle Italic, the first kerned italic for Monotype casting.
• Caslon series
• * English Caslon Old Style No. 37 + Italic, commissioned by the Gilliss Press in Boston.
• * Caslon Old Style No. 437 + Italic, based on Stephenson Blake’s Caslon Old Face.
• Classic Hebrew
• Janson + Italic, based on the thirteenth century face of Anton Janson. Adapted by Hess and Bruce Rogers.
• Laurentian, a Monotype adaptation of William Dana Orcutt’s Humanistic. Later modified by Stephenson Blake and called Bologna, which was in turn copied by ATF and called Verona
• Goudy Bible, a re-branding of Goudy’s Goudy Newstyle. Used by Bruce Rogers and Hess for the famous Oxford Lectern Bible of 1948.
• Martin + Italic, listed by Monotype as having been produced and being based on “old sources” but no specimen survives.