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The Lanston Type Company (LTC) has a rich tradition dating back to the nineteenth century. Acquired Lanston was acquired by American Type Founders in 1969.
Lanston Type Co's rich history dates back to 1887 when Tolbert Lanston received his first patent for a mechanical typesetting device. Later refinements led to the Monotype casting machine and the emergence of the Lanston Monotype Company as one of the most renowned type supply companies in the world. The Monotype caster was revolutionary and along with other automated typesetting machines helped t
o usher in a new age of printing technology. Typesetting had, until this time, remained the same as Gutenberg's first hand-set movable type. In the late 1800s, Tolbert Lanston licensed his technology to an English sister company and became a major international force. Lanston grew rapidly with America's pre-eminent type designer, Frederic Goudy, holding the position of art director from 1920-1947. The Philadelphia-based Lanston Monotype eventually parted ways with its English counterpart. English Monotype became simply known as Monotype from that time forth. After a series of other owners, the company found its way to master printer Gerald Giampa, who moved it to Prince Edward Island in 1988. During its time of transition, Lanston continued supplying the American market for monotype hot metal type needs until January 21, 2000, when the majority of Lanston's machinery and historical records were tragically destroyed by a tidal wave. Giampa was one of the earliest developers of PostScript fonts. After the loss, he focused on digitization to an even greater extent. Under his stewardship, Lanston's classic faces were digitized in a style that was true to the sources, which are the brass and lead patterns from which the metal type was made. In late 2004, Lanston has completed another journey back to the United States to come under the care of a new steward: P22 type foundry. Despite few artifacts surviving, P22/Lanston has sought out original specimens and even some patterns to digitize additional fonts and expand character sets of the Lanston Collection. The expansive library of types and ornaments all harken back to the hot metal era and strive to keep the history and usefulness of these fonts available to today's designers.
26/11/2020
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Lanston Type Co. is a collection by P22, dedicated to digital interpretations of type designs that originated at the Lanston Monotype Cooperation, see Monotype. P22 acquired licenses for the Lanston type library in 2004.
08/06/2020
Get 50% off Lanston fonts at Fontspring until JUne 15, 2020!
22/05/2019
For a very limited time, get 50% off all Lanston fonts!
https://p22.com/ltc
As part of the ongoing 25th anniversary of P22 Type Foundry, we are pleased to offer 50% off all fonts in our Lanston Collection. Get any and all Lanston fonts at 50% until May 31, 2019. No code needed.
Stock up now on these type and ornament classics while they are 50% off!
https://p22.com/ltc
17/07/2018
For the week of July 17th–24th we're giving you 75% off all Lanston titles!
Just use the code: SUMMER75 when you check out at P22.com
10/04/2018
Francis is welcomed back into the Lanston family!
27/11/2017
CYAN MONDAY! 60% off all Lanston Fonts - Give yourself a gift this holiday, or just use up your departmental budget before the end of the year. Grab that Frederic Goudy or Sol Hess face you always wanted. But get your Lanston Type Collection fonts in the next couple of days before the offer expires on 11/29/2017 at midnight.
17/10/2017
Get the authentic knock off of Futura at P22/Lanston - featuring the quirky alternative Twentieth Century (50% off until Oct 31 with code: 50CENT) https://p22.com/family-Twentieth_Century_Medium
Companies from Best Buy to Forever 21 use Futura, but probably not the original. That’s because it has been endlessly reimagined, imitated, and blatantly ripped off.
15/07/2015
50% off all Lanston fonts for 1 week!
30/04/2015
LTC Goudy Ornaments in a new format: Wood! Debuting at the Upstate NY Wayzgoose from Virgin Wood Type on May 9 at Wells College
“Come see our new Goudy Manicules at also we will have a demonstration of wood type cutting. …”
08/03/2015
March 8 is Frederic Goudy's 150th Birthday! For the month of March get 25% off the Goudy Oldstyle Fonts.
This classic Frederic Goudy design was originally made for American Type Founders in 1915. When Goudy became the type director of Lanston Monotype, many of his designs...
03/12/2014
35% off all Lanston Type Co., All Hamilton Wood Type Foundry (HWT) and all P22 type foundry fonts and merchandise!
22/08/2014
All of the digital Lanston Type Co. fonts were once metal type. Some still are! See links on our pages for Metal versions for a variety of contemporary type casters that are still Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century including Skyline Type and Bixler Letter Foundry (who are not on Facebook)
Designed by Morris Fuller Benton 1913-15, this Oldstyle family was digitized by Jim Rimmer in the early 2000's. It is a roman face closely styled to that of Nicholas J...
05/08/2014
20% off everything for the month of August https://www.p22.com/email-31
25/07/2014
The Goudy (Cloister) Initials poster has been featured on Neenah Paper's Beauty of Letterpress site
CLOISTER INITIALS 11″ x 17″ Printing was done at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum by Richard Kegler, during the APA Wayzgoose event. The newly cast 120 point initials were set up on a Vandercook proofing press and run with black ink on 100 # Mohawk Superfine paper. The large G printed with…
14/07/2014
Newly redrawn digital Goudy (Cloister) Initials on sale until July 31.
LTC Goudy Initials has been a best-seller since it was reformatted to font format by P22 in 2005. We decided that while it works very well at medium sizes, when it was...
01/07/2014
The Cloister Initials metal type may have sold out quickly, but we captured their faces on a new limited edition letterpress poster
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15/06/2014
Lanston is back in the hot metal business (for a very brief time)
Since we have had the term "type foundry" in our name for 20 years, we thought it might be good to get the lead out. For anyone interested in ordering these, the window of opportunity will open and close very soon.
06/05/2014
Which Lanston Monotype designs that have never been digitized would YOU like to see made into digital fonts?
07/03/2014
Join us is wishing Frederic Goudy a happy 149th birthday!
06/03/2014
Digitized as LTC Garamont, the original drawings are in the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection.
Site-wide links Monday?Friday 9 a.m.?12 p.m., 1 p.m.?5 p.m. Saturday?Sunday Frederic Goudy, Drawings for Garamont, Lanston #248, pencil, pen and ink, 1921.
03/03/2014
Brand new LTC Archive Ornaments with a great introductory sale price.
17/02/2014
A new digital ornament font coming soon from P22 type foundry/Lanston Type Co. Special thanks to the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection who now hold these rare patterns in their archive.
LTC Archive Ornaments is a dingbat font created from a unique collection of brass ornament plates, originally used in creating the matrices for casting metal type. Using the plates as a reference point allowed for a more precise rendering of the ornaments…
17/01/2014
Deep in the recesses of the current Lanston website lies a time-capsule of Giampa era Lanston (circa 1995-2003). It has been left intact for historical purposes.
¶ THE LANSTON TYPE LIBRARY produces exquisite digital fonts using original hot metal sources.
02/01/2014
The LTC chapbook is the first Lanston print catalog in over 20 years.
P22 specimen chapbook series. Each of these 32 page books are printed in a limited edition of 1500 with hand printed letterpress covers featuring metallic inks on chipboard. Each book measures 4.5" x 6.5" and showcases a specific font family, foundry or s…
31/12/2013
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Final day of Lanston Type Co. 50% off sale!
Cyan Monday at P22—60% off Lanston Type Co. fonts...plus P22 Ephemera packs that make great stocking stuffers (Provided you have impossibly large stockings)
Lighten up with Francis! A new script font from Lanston Type Co.---at 30% off
Happy Birthday Frederic Goudy! FWG was born on this day in 1865. Designer of many typefaces and sheep based insults, he was also the type director of Lanston Type Co. Image courtesy of the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection
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The International Biennial Poster Design Terras Gauda DO Rías Baixas – Concurso Internacional Francisco Mantecón Competition is once again a meeting point for the international artistic avant-garde in 2015
Prizes: €16,000 in cash // Deadline: September 30th
We would appreciate it if you could share the conditions of entry.
More information: http://www.franciscomantecon.com/2015/index.php
The International Biennial Poster Design Terras Gauda DO Rías Baixas – Concurso Internacional Francisco Mantecón Competition is once again a meeting point for the international artistic avant-garde in 2015
Prizes: €16,000 in cash // Deadline: September 30th
We would appreciate it if you could share the conditions of entry.
More information: http://www.franciscomantecon.com/2015/index.php
Lanston Type Co. Goudy Ornaments in a new format: Wood! Debuting at the Upstate NY Wayzgoose from Virgin Wood Type on May 9 at Wells Book Arts Center
A handful of new fonts this week! We welcome new foundry R-Typography.com and new fonts from Sudtipos, Lanston Type Co., Hoftype, Mint Type, Sideshow & LatinoType. http://blog.fontshop.com/2014/03/11/new-fonts-this-week-87/
How magazine features the newest Lanston Type Co. release which just happens to be on sale!
A brand new set of ornaments from the Lanston Type Co. Collection at P22. On sale now!
2014 is turning out to be a banner year for new releases from P22 (and the IHOF, Hamilton Wood Type Foundry and Lanston Type Co. divisions of P22). Coming very soon is a fresh set of decorative ornaments from LTC!
