HWT American Chromatic was developed by William Page, Richard Kegler, Terry Wüdenbachs and published by Hamilton Wood Type Foundry. HWT American Chromatic consists of 8 styles and family bundle options. p > The HWT American Chromatic set is a multilayered font set that will permit thousands of possible color and pattern combinations. The original 19th Century Chromatic upon which this font set is based included two font styles. The HWT digital version consists of eight. The alignment is set up to permit any combination of the eight font styles to all align when identical text is set and set up, one on top of the other.

Due to the highly ornamental nature of this font set, the character set is restricted to upper case only with basic punctuation. Five of the eight font styles in the set can be utilized separately as variations of the classic Tuscan design of wood type, which is defined by its concave stems and serifs. There are no accented characters due to the elaborate nature of the style and because there were no accents initially intended for this design.

This typeface is best used at sizes of 72 pt or larger and is perfect for a large selection of style uses.

For webfont use, CSS with z-index and position will permit easy online layering.

Font Family:
· HWT American Chromatic
· HWT American Outline
· HWT American Solid
· HWT American Shopworn
· HWT American Inset
· HWT American Stars
· HWT American Stars Top
· HWT American Stars Bottom

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