Typophile - Horley Old Style Research - Comments

Hej - thanks... it’s not,

Rolandillo — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:14:02 -0700

Hej - thanks... it’s not, that I never googled about that... But I guess I did not went through the results properly enough. Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it again :-)

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enlightment to all of you!

Various bits of info through

majus — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:45:45 -0700

Various bits of info through Google appear about the face. Linotype’s site says that Frank Hinman Pierpont was the designer of Horley; another site says he supervised the design of it.

Horley Old Style Research

Rolandillo — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:33:27 -0700

Dear Typophiles around the world... I’m busy with a research project about Horley Old Style. As you might know, this face was developped in 1922 from Monotype as an answer to Goudy’s successful Kennerley. I guess later (1977?) Robert Norton worked on a revival and today Horley is available as a digitised typeface as well.

If anybody of you have special background or any information about Horley, the specific designers behind it, Robert Norton or if anybody has access to specimens from the diffrent typefaces (1925, 1977, today....) or if anybody knows where such specimens could be watched... Every little hint or information is very helpful.

Thank you very much and have a good time!

cheerz,
Roland