“Marble Heart is an ATF reissue, in 1933 and
several later times, of Gothic Double Shade, an 1870s
typeface of Boston Type Foundry, one of ATF’s predecessors. The ATF
casting was later plated and issued by John Carroll and others, and
cut in smaller sizes by Los Angeles Type Foundry.” [McGrew]
A precursor was
shown by Haenel in Germany in 1847, as No. 352
(caps only). The design may have originated in France. [THP] Apart
from Haenel, many other German-speaking foundries carried this
design, including AG für Schriftgießerei, Dresler, Flinsch, Gronau,
Haas, Herrlinger & Schmidt, Huck, John, Klinkhardt, Meyer &
Schleicher, Reimann, Rudhard, Rühl, Rust, Schelter & Giesecke,
Gustav Schelter, Trowitzsch & Sohn, Weisert, Woellmer. [Reynolds]
Flinsch had a version for bicolor printing as
Buntdruck-Schriften 1874–1876 (c. 1894). More…
“Marble Heart is an ATF reissue, in 1933 and several later times, of Gothic Double Shade, an 1870s typeface of Boston Type Foundry, one of ATF’s predecessors. The ATF casting was later plated and issued by John Carroll and others, and cut in smaller sizes by Los Angeles Type Foundry.” [McGrew]
A precursor was shown by Haenel in Germany in 1847, as No. 352 (caps only). The design may have originated in France. [THP] Apart from Haenel, many other German-speaking foundries carried this design, including AG für Schriftgießerei, Dresler, Flinsch, Gronau, Haas, Herrlinger & Schmidt, Huck, John, Klinkhardt, Meyer & Schleicher, Reimann, Rudhard, Rühl, Rust, Schelter & Giesecke, Gustav Schelter, Trowitzsch & Sohn, Weisert, Woellmer. [Reynolds] Flinsch had a version for bicolor printing as Buntdruck-Schriften 1874–1876 (c. 1894). [Reynolds]
The design was digitized as Marmorherz NF (Nick’s Fonts, 2014, no lowercase, used for sample) and by Alan Jay Prescott (Type Heritage Project).
