Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was an American company founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs. Oz Cooper, Will Ransom, Robert Wiebking, and Sidney Gaunt all designed for BB&S. It was bought out by American Type Founders in 1911 with the proviso that the merger would not take effect for twenty years, so that the employees would have a chance to find new work or retire over time. The foundry was finally closed in 1933. Mergers and acquisitions Advance Type Foundry (AKA Wiebking, Hardinge & Company), Chicago, bought out by Western Type Foundry in 1914. Western Type Foundry, Saint Louis, Missouri, bought by B.B.&S in 1918. Typefaces These foundry types were originally cast by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler: A Adcraft Adcraft lightface, 8-48pt, or Puritan, Hansen (8-48pt) ATF 1501 Adcraft Medium, 6-72pt, ATF 1502 Adcraft Bold or Plymouth, 6-120pt Adcraft Black or Plymouth Bold, 6-72pt, ATF 1500 Adstyle design: Sidney C. Gaunt, 1906, 6-120pt, ATF 1503 Adstyle Italic 6-72pt, ATF 1509 Adstyle Condensed 10-120pt, ATF 1506 Adstyle Extra Condensed 10-108pt ATF 1507 Adstyle Wide 6-60pt, ATF 1511 Ádstyle lightface Adstyle Black 6-96pt, ATF 1504 Adstyle Outline 12-96pt, ATF 1505 Adstyle Shaded10-72pt, ATF 1510, Gaunt: 1914 Adstyle Borders, design: T. C. Robinson 1908, 7 series, 12-24pt, Special Reversed Figures: Mono 132S (12-18pt) Advertisers Gothic, 6-72pt, Design: Robert Wiebking 1917, for Western Type Foundry take over by BB&S in 1919, ATF 1512 Advertisers Gothic Condensed 6-72pt, ATF 1513 Advertisers Gothic Outline 6-72pt, ATF 1515 Advertisers Gothic Condensed Outline 6-72pt, ATF 1514 Advertisers Upright Script 14-72pt, original name: Oliphant (1895) renamed in 1925, ATF 1516 Artcraft, design: Robert Wiebking 1912, 6-72pt Artcraft italic, 6-48pt, ATF 1529, Ludlow 10LI Artcraft Bold, 6-72pt, ATF 1528, Ludlow 10-B Authors Roman, design: Sidney Gaunt for BB&S in 1902, other versions were added between 1908 and 1915: , 5-72pt, ATF 1531 Authors Oldstyle Italic, (5-72pt) ATF 1533 Authors Oldstyle Bold 5-72pt, ATF 1532 Authors Roman, 5-72pt, ATF 1534 Authors Roman Italic, 5-72pt, ATF 1530 Authors Roman Condensed, 6-72pt, ATF 1537 Authors Roman Wide, 5-48pt, ATF 1538 Authors Roman Bold, 5-72pt, ATF 1535 Authors Roman Bold Condensed, 6-72pt, ATF 1536, B Bamboo, original named: Freak, 10-30pt, patented in 1889 by Great Western Type Foundry. in 1925 at BB&S, later copied by Typefounders of Phoenix 18pt Bank Script, Spencerian script, design: James West in 1895 for BB&S, 14-48pt, ATF 1540, the next lower case scripts can be used with the capitals of no.1: Bank Script no.2, lower case alphabet with a larger x-height, 14-38pt, ATF 1712 Bank Script no.3, lower case alphabet wider and with a larger x-height, 14-48pt, ATF 1713 Barnhart Oldstype, design: Sidney Gaunt (1906) (6-72pt), ATF 1544 Barnhart Oldstype No.2, (1907) same capitals, larger lower case and shorter descenders, (6-72pt), ATF 1545 Barnhart Oldstype Italic, (6-72pt) ATF 1546 Barnhart Lightface, (~1914) BB&S Bizarre Bold, designed as Edwards in 1895 by