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Artcraft is an Old Style typeface designed in 1912 by Robert Wiebking for ''Wiebking, Hardinge & Company'' which ran the Advance Type Foundry. It was originally called ''Craftsman,'' then ''Art-Craft,'' before finally becoming ''Artcraft.'' After Advance was sold to the Western Type Foundry in 1914, Wiebking added ''Artcraft Bold'' and ''Artcraft Italic.'' After Western was sold to Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (a subsidiary of American Type Founders) the face was sold by both BB&S and ATF.〔MacGrew, Mac, ''American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century,'' Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, ISBN 0-938768-34-4, p. 17.〕 ''Artcraft'' is typical of the turn-of-the-century's Chicago School of Hand Lettering, and it compares favorably with other types based upon advertising lettering, such as Frederic Goudy's ''Pabst'' (1902) and ''Powell'' (1903), as well as Oz Cooper's ''Packard'' (1913). The face retained a wide popularity for more than two decades. Wiebking, whose reputation was based upon his collaboration as a matrix cutter for other designers, occasionally ventured a design of his own. Though he is usually credited with creating ''Artcraft,'' type historian Alexander Lawson believes that the type was probably created by Edmund C. Fischer.〔Provan, Archie, and Alexander S. Lawson, ''100 Type Histories (volume 1)'', National Composition Association, Arlington, Virginia, 1983. pp. 18-19.〕 ==Other versions== ''Artcraft'' was copied for machine composition by Monotype and for hand casting by Ludlow. The Ludlow matrices were cut by R. Hunter Middleton.〔MacGrew, p. 17.〕 There is also a face known as ''Art and Craft'' cast by Stephenson Blake which might be the same thing.〔Millingoton, Roy ''Stephenson Blake: The Last of the Old English Typefounders'' Oak Knoll Press, New Castle Delaware, 2002, ISBN 1-58456-086-X, p. 226.〕 The face was later made available in cold type and digital versions are now offered by the Font Company, URW++, and Ascender Corporation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Artcraft (typeface)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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