All faces cut by
Lanston Monotype. •
Hess Title + Italic (1910) •
Hess Title Italic (1911) •
Bookman series based on an oldstyle antique face designed by
A.C. Phemister for the Scottish foundry of
Miller & Richard about 1860. •
Bookman Oldstyle Condensed (1916) •
New Bookman (1927) •
Jefferson Gothic (1916), alternate characters for
Benton's News Gothic Extra Condensed. Also cast by
Baltimore Type & Composition Company as
Tourist Extra Condensed. •
Cochin series, based on the original by the
G. Peignot et Fils foundry in
Paris. •
Cochin (1917) •
Cochin Italic (1921) •
Cochin Bold + Bold Italic (1921) •
Cochin Open (1927) •
Cochin Bold Tooled, was designed in house by Monotype, probably by Hess. •
Goudy Old Style series, all based on
Frederic Goudy's Old Style • Swash capitals for
Goudy Bold Italic (1919) • Swash capitals for
Goudy Handtooled Italic (1922) •
Goudy Heavy Face Open' (1926) •
Goudy Heavy Face Condensed (1927) •
Goudy Text Shaded, was designed in house by Monotype, probably by Hess. •
Hess Old Style (1920), based on faces by
Nicolas Jenson. •
Hess Old Style Italic (1922) •
Hess Bold (1922), a companion face for
Goudy's Goudy Light. •
Hess Bold Italic (1924) •
Italian Old Style Wide (1924), designed as a companion to
Goudy's Italian Old Style. •
Scotch Roman series based on faces cut by the
Scottish foundry of
Alexander Wilson & Son before 1833. •
Scotch Open Shaded Italic (1924) • Swash initials for
Scotch Roman Italic •
Kennerley Open Capitals (1925), designed as a companion to
Goudy's Kennerley Open. •
Heavyface Condensed (1927) •
Alternate Gothic Modernized (1927), thirteen alternate characters for
Benton's Alternate Gothic No. 1. •
Cooper Tooled (1928), based upon
Oz Cooper's Cooper Hilite, though with the white line on the opposite side. •
Broadway series •
Broadway Engraved (1928) • Lowercase letters for
Benton's Broadway (1929) •
Tourist Gothic series •
Tourist Gothic (1922), adapted from on
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler's Modern Condensed Gothic by including a set of alternate rounded capitals. •
Tourist Gothic Italic (1938) •
Tourist Extra Condensed was actually just
Baltimore Type's re-branding of Hess's
Jefferson Gothic. •
Bodoni series •
Bodoni Bold Panelled (1928) •
Bodoni Bold Condensed (1934) •
Sans Serif series, based on
Rudolf Koch’s
Kabel. •
Sans Serif Extrabold (1930) •
Sans Serif Extrabold Condensed (1930) •
Sans Serif Medium Condensed (1930) •
Sans Serif Light Condensed (1930) •
Sans Serif Lined •
Hadriano Stone Cut (1932), an in-line version of
Goudy's Hadriano Title. •
Pendrawn (1933) •
Hess Neobold (1934) •
Stymie series, based on
Benton's Stymie •
Stymie Extrabold (1934) •
Stymie Medium Condensed (1935) •
Stymie Extrabold Condensed (1935) •
Stymie Light Condensed (1936) •
Stymie Extrabold Italic (1935) •
Baskerville Bold (1935), adapted from
John Baskerville’s heavyface of 1757. •
Spire (1937), capital letters only. •
Twentieth Century series (1937) •
Twentieth Century Bold Italic (1937) •
Twentieth Century Extrabold Italic (1937) •
Twentieth Century Extrabold Condensed Italic (1938) •
Twentieth Century Ultrabold (1941) •
Twentieth Century Ultrabold Condensed (1944) •
Twentieth Century Medium Condensed Italic (1947) •
Twentieth Century Ultrabold Italic (1947) •
Century Bold Condensed Italic (1938), based on
Benton’s Century Bold. •
New Gothic Condensed lowercase (1938) •
Slimline (1939), a knock off of
Huxley Vertical. •
Onyx Italic (1939), a companion to
Gerry Powell’s Onyx •
Squareface (1940), a variation of
Stymie Extra Bold. •
Stylescript (1940) •
Post series, commissioned by the
Saturday Evening Post and based upon
E.J. Kitson’s hand lettering for that magazine. •
Post Black Italic (1939) •
Post Stout Italic (1934) •
Ward Roman + Italic (1942), based upon
Memphis Light. Privately cast for use in the
Montgomery Ward catalog. •
Alternate Gothic Italic, No. 2 (1946), an italic companion to
Benton’s Alternate Gothic No. 2. •
Stationers Gothic series •
Stationers Gothic Light (1948) •
Stationers Gothic Bold (1948) •
Stationers Gothic Medium (1948) •
Hess New Bookbold + Italic (1948), an adaptation of
Garamond Bold. •
Artscript (1948), based on the calligraphy of
Domingo Maria de Servidori of
Madrid from 1798. •
Cheltenham Wide Italic, a companion to
Goodhue’s Cheltenham. •
Poster, also called
Hess Poster. •
Hess Monoblack, never listed in regular specimen books, only on a “specimen request sheet.” ==Typefaces adapted for Monotype composition by Sol Hess==