Inspired initially by the handwritten notes and letters of individuals, the western font soon was picked up and modified or invented by newspapers or magazine groups like Broadway, New York Times and many more to name. Comes with a character map.The history of typefaces goes long back to the 15th century. Painstaking craftsmanship and an incredible collection of hard-to-find signatures go into this one-of-a-kind font.
#WESTERN FONT WINDOWS#
Open any Windows application, select the installed font, and type a letter, and the signature will appear at that point on the page. Each signature is mapped to a regular character on your keyboard. This font behaves exactly like any other font. Johnson, William George Fargo, William Barclay "Bat" Masterson, King Philip, Frank James, Eleazer Williams, Henry Wells, Junipero Serra, John Sevier, John Ross, Joseph Virgo, Chief Joseph, Red Jacket, Manuel Lisa, Julian Dubuque, John Augustus Sutter, Manuel Lisa, Jesse James, Jesse James alias Thomas Howard, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Newton Ford, Emmett Dalton, Henry McCarty alias Greenville Mellen Dodge, Edward Zane Carroll Judson ("Ned Buntline"), Rain-in-the-Face, James Robertson, Zebulon Pike, Chief Two Guns White Calf, Pierre Chouteau Jr., Frank Butler, Isaac Shelby, Moses Austin, Moses Cleveland, Rufus Putnam, Pierre Chouteau Sr., Father Pierre Jean De Smet, and Auguste Chouteau. Frederick Benteen, James Wilkinson, Nelson Appleton Miles, Philip Kearny, Chief G.H.M. Bonney ("Billy the Kid"), Cole Younger, Bob Younger, Jim Younger, Pat Floyd Garrett, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Squire Boone, Samuel Colt, Gordon William Lillie ("Pawnee Bill"), Annie Oakley, William Barret Travis, Allan Pinkerton, Jose de Galvez, George Rogers Clark, George Crook, John Charles Fremont, George Croghan, Simon Kenton, Maj. This font includes signatures from the following American West personalities: William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), George Armstrong Custer, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Kit Carson, Joseph Brant, David Crockett, Wyatt Earp, Geronimo, James Bowie, Daniel Boone, Sam Houston, Calamity Jane, Sitting Bull, William H.
A must-have for autograph collectors, desktop publishers, lovers of history, or anyone who has ever dreamed of sending a letter, card, or e-mail "signed" as if by one of these famous Western celebrities. Western Americana is a unique collection of signatures of 72 famous American frontiersmen, gunslingers, Wild West personalities, outlaws, and Indians in a high-quality font.
#WESTERN FONT UPDATE#
Today, this sort of update is often referred to not as "modernization" but as classicism. They desired to modernize this old style. Yet they also found the basic medieval textura letterform too difficult to read by present standards. During the Victorian era, designers admired the Middle Ages for its chivalric, community-based values and its pre-industrial lifestyle. For northern Europeans, texturas remained the most popular form of typeface design until the invention of the fraktur style in Nuremberg.Mariage is heavily classicized sort of Old English type. Italian printers stopped using them around 1470. Continental printers had been printing with textura style letters since Gutenberg's invention of the printing press fifty years earlier.
The Old English style is a subset of blackletter type that dates back to 1498, when Wynken de Worde introduced textura style printing to England. Their forms often print large amounts of ink upon the page, creating text that leaves a heavy, black impression. These letters, called gebrochene Schriften, or "broken type" in German, are normally elaborately bent and distorted. The term blackletter refers to typefaces that stem out of the historical printing traditions of northern Europe. Mariage, which has been sold under a plethora of different names during the last century, is a blackletter typeface belonging to the Old English category.
Morris Fuller Benton, the principal designer of the American Type Founders, designed Mariage in 1901.