It is based on the chancery style, a cursive Italian hand that originates with 15th and 16th century Italian writing masters such as Giambattista Palatino and Giovanantonio Tagliente]. Educational and reference site run by Ben Archer, a designer, educator and type enthusiast located in England who was in Auckland, New Zealand, before that.
Type categories. Telephone Directory publishing: Bell Gothic. Link to Archer Design Work. Alan Meeks. Prolific type designer, b.
London, Alan started working in for Graphic Systems as a lettering artist. In , he joined Letraset as the Senior Type Designer and Studio Manager where he was responsible for all the artwork produced by the Letraset studio.
During his tenure at Letraset, he designed over 40 popular typefaces, including Bramley, Candice, Bickley Script and Belwe. Most of these typefaces also showed up in the Scangraphic collection. Together with type director Colin Brignall, Alan contributed to the success of Letraset. All the original typographic artwork produced at Letraset was produced by hand cutting the fonts in Rubylith, a highly-skilled technique known as stencil cutting.
Alan was responsible for training the entire Letraset studio in this art. Most of the original Letraset artwork has now been archived at St. Brides Printing Library, London.
