What is the HWT Roman Extended Fatface™ font?

The design of the first “Fat Face” is credited to Robert Thorne just after 1800 in England. It is considered to be the first type style designed specifically for display or jobbing, rather than for book work. The first instance of Fat Face in wood type is found in the first wood type specimen book ever produced: Darius Wells, Letter Cutter 1828. This style was produced by all early wood type manufacturers. More… The style is derived from the high contrast, thick and thin Modern style of Bodoni and Didot developed only decades previously. The extended variation makes the face even more of a display type and not at all suitable for text. This type of display type was used to compete with the new Lithographic process which allowed for the development of the poster as an artform unto itself. This new digitization by Jim Lyles most closely follows the Wm Page cut. The crisp outlines hold up at the largest point sizes you can imagine. This font contains a full CE character set.

HWT Roman Extended Fatface™ Font families

The HWT Roman Extended Fatface™ includes the following font families:

• HWT Roman Extended Fatface

HWT Roman Extended Fatface™ Preview

Here is a preview of how HWT Roman Extended Fatface™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.