The first comprehensive type family. Designed by Bertram
Grosvenor Goodhue, assisted by Ingalls Kimball, director of the
Cheltenham Press, who suggested and supervised the face. Further
refined by ATF’s chief designer Morris F. Benton (some sources
suggest Joseph W. Phinney). Trial cuttings were made as early as
1899, but it was not completed until about 1902, and patented in
1904 by Kimball. Benton produced Cheltenham Bold in 1904 and a
score of variations up to 1913. Linotype, Monotype, and Ludlow each
have duplicates of a dozen or more Cheltenhams, while Intertype has
the same under the name Cheltonian. [McGrew] The
regular is called Cheltenham Oldstyle. Cast by Caslon
as Cheltenham Old Style.
Very successful and imported/copied by many foundries, including
by Flinsch (as Roosevelt), Gans (as
Veneciana), Klinkhardt (as Toskana),
Olive (as Americaines Nouvelles), Hansen (as
Craftsman Old Style), Monotype (as Gloucester), More…
The first comprehensive type family. Designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, assisted by Ingalls Kimball, director of the Cheltenham Press, who suggested and supervised the face. Further refined by ATF’s chief designer Morris F. Benton (some sources suggest Joseph W. Phinney). Trial cuttings were made as early as 1899, but it was not completed until about 1902, and patented in 1904 by Kimball. Benton produced Cheltenham Bold in 1904 and a score of variations up to 1913. Linotype, Monotype, and Ludlow each have duplicates of a dozen or more Cheltenhams, while Intertype has the same under the name Cheltonian. [McGrew] The regular is called Cheltenham Oldstyle. Cast by Caslon as Cheltenham Old Style.
Very successful and imported/copied by many foundries, including by Flinsch (as Roosevelt), Gans (as Veneciana), Klinkhardt (as Toskana), Olive (as Americaines Nouvelles), Hansen (as Craftsman Old Style), Monotype (as Gloucester), Stevens (as Sandringham Old Style), and Vanderborght (as Renaissance). See also Berthold’s Sorbonne.
ITC Cheltenham (1975) is a revision with a larger x-height.
