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Baltimore Geometric from HiH Baltimore Geometric is a HiH font family with 1 style priced from $10.00. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: May 27th, 2008
Designed when: 1883
Design owned by: HiH
MyFonts Keywords: 1880s, American, geometric, heavy, retro, revival, sans-serif, square, vintage
Baltimore Geometric
Baltimore Type Foundry released its Antique Geometric series by 1883, including it that year on advance sheets for their 1886 Specimen Book, shortly after the firm was taken over by Charles J. Cary.
We have chosen to call our version of the face “Baltimore Geometric” because we like the name better. The Central Type Foundry-Boston Type Foundry combine followed with a similar typeface in 1884, using an engraving machine to cut directly into matrices (Gray page 124). It was called simply “Geometric”. As noted in the write-up for HiH font Teutonia, a number of similar typeface designs have appeared over the years. The simplicity of concept is inviting and certainly fits nicely with some of the intellectual theories that developed in the early twentieth century, like the De Stijl and Constructivist movements.
This font is useful in conveying an image that is logical and mechanical, implying a high degree of functionality.
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