Designed by William Hamilton Page and Tim Martin, HWT Slab is a piece serif and wood type font family. This typeface has two designs and was published by P22 Type Foundry.

These 2 extra vibrant typefaces are traditional piece serif wood type designs with one detail of distinction. Columbian is an extra strong Clarendon wood type that was made by a number of the wood type makers in the late 19th century. "Clarendons" feature bracketed or rounded serif joins whereas "Antique" was a class of typefaces that includes squared off slab serifs. Some type designs have just small distinctions from others. The Columbian design is basically similar to Wm. Page & & Co. ‘ s "Antique no. 4", with the distinction being the bracketed serifs.

In looking into product for the digitization of Columbian, we started with a 15 line font style recognized as "Columbian" displayed in the Angelica Press wood type portfolio (printed in 1976). This typeface is in truth "Page Antique no. 4". Comparing Antique # 4 to Columbian specimens from Hamilton and other makers validates the only genuine distinction is the serif treatments. For that reason, both fonts exist as a pair. Each typeface features a complete Western & & Central European character set.

Font Family:
· HWT Slab Antique
· HWT Slab Columbian