LTC Athena was designed by Miranda Roth and released by Lanston Type Company. LTC Athena contains 1 design. p > LTC Athena brings a somewhat "lost" hot-metal typeface back from obscurity into digital Opentype format. In fall 2012, printing historian Rich Hopkins contacted P22 type foundry regarding some tattooed type drawings he had actually just revealed from his acquisition of the Baltimore-based "Baltotype" company some 20 years earlier. It is an uncommon face whose original matrices were ruined and believed completely lost. The illustrations included a complete upper and lower case set, numerals, fundamental punctuation, and alternate kinds of some letters.

The style is a narrow deco-flavored design from the 1950s with a curious avoidance of straight lines in the stems and main strokes.

The face has actually been broadened to over 340 characters by Miranda Roth and includes ligatures in addition to a complete Pan-European character set. It is released through the Lanston department of P22 in consideration of its earlier version as a metal typeface.

Font Family: LTC Athena

Tags: 1950s, art deco, baltotype, directional serif, retro, roman, serif