| Date: 1906 Designer:
designer unknown Foundry:
Lettergieterij 'Amsterdam' (Tetterode) Location:
Amsterdam, Holland Current equivalent:
Linotype Kuenstler Script Two Bold See also:
FB Novia Script by Cyrus Highsmith. Bauer Lithographia. NOT to be confused with Linotype Excelsior by
Chauncey H. Griffith.
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Photosetting
Postscript | | Famous for:
Metal script typeface cast on a trapezoid-shaped body.
Applications: Historical Script Ubiquity:
Very rarely used Category:
Formal Script Stress: Angled
Serifs: None | | Design history:
Excelsior Script is a formal copperplate script in the English 18th
century style, and was duplicated by Bauer, Stempel, and the Amsterdam
Typefoundry within 11 years of each other at the turn of the 20th
century, but in each case the name of the designer went unrecorded. The
acute angle of the upright stokes was a result of the type's cast on
trapezoidally shaped body to avoid kerning and improve letterfit. The
diamond shaped dots are almost unique to this face, and lead me to
believe that at some point in the 20th century, this typeface was
renamed (wrongly) as a bold version of another script typeface called
Künstlerschriebschrift (Kuenstler Script). | |  |
