Mr Donaldson Pro

ID / Record #633
Credits Alejandro Paul
Licensing Público con costo
Foundry Sudtipos
Release 2009
Classification Títulos, Script
Class Retail
Variants 2 Styles
Regional Node(s) Argentina
Specimen Mr Donaldson Pro
Note. Specimen of the typeface Mr Donaldson Pro. Copyright by Sudtipos.
Translation pending - Showing original Spanish

The Charles Bluemlein Script Collection is an intriguing reminder of the heady days of hand lettering and calligraphy in the United States. From the early 1930s through World War II, there were about 200 professional hand letterers working in New York City alone. This occupation saw its demise with the advent of photo lettering, and after digital typography, became virtually extinct. The odd way in which the Bluemlein scripts were assembled and created - by collecting different signatures and then building complete alphabets from them - is a fascinating calligraphic adventure. Because the set of constructed designs looked nothing like the original signatures, fictitious names were assigned to the new script typefaces. The typeface styles were then showcased in Higgins Ink catalogs.

La Charles Bluemlein Script Collection constituye un documento histórico excepcional que captura la efervescencia del rotulado manual en los Estados Unidos entre 1930 y 1945. El proyecto se basa en una metodología singular: la reconstrucción de alfabetos sistemáticos a partir de la morfología de firmas reales, un proceso que derivó en la creación de identidades gráficas completamente nuevas y la asignación de nombres ficticios para su catalogación en Higgins Ink. Académicamente, la colección representa una "aventura caligráfica" que preserva un oficio hoy extinto, transformando el rastro biométrico de la firma en un sistema tipográfico funcional. La curaduría de Alejandro Paul y Sudtipos revive esta herencia, permitiendo que la elegancia de la Nueva York de la preguerra habite con autenticidad en el diseño contemporáneo.

RECOMMENDED CITATION

TipoMap Latam. (2026). Mr Donaldson Pro. Mapping of Typographic Production in Latin America. Consulted on 15-06-2026 de https://tipomap.lat/view_typo?id=633