Ronaldson

What is the Ronaldson Font?

On April 29, 2006, Simone Chisena uploaded to the WhatTheFont forum a scanned two-page spread from a 1970s Italian gardening book, asking for the identity of the face used on those pages. Rebecca Alaccari had been spending her daily lunch hour at that forum for a few weeks then. The face used on the pages was identified as the American classic Ronaldson Old Style, a MacKellar, Smith & Jordan metal face dating back to 1884. Ronaldson Old Style was never digitized. A conversation about it started on the forum, and the rest was a great 22-month adventure in type history, the result of which is this digital version of what was the best selling and most unique American text face of the nineteenth century, all the way into the 1920s.. The metal Ronaldson was the magnum opus of Alexander Kay, a first generation Scottish-American expert punchcutter whose r

Ronaldson Font Families

When you download Ronaldson, the family will include the following font styles:

• Ronaldson Regular
• Ronaldson Italic
• Ronaldson Bold

Preview of the Ronaldson Font

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Who Designed the Ronaldson Font?

This font has 3 style(s) and was published by Canada Type.

Is Ronaldson a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Ronaldson is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Ronaldson. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Ronaldson for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Ronaldson if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Ronaldson to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Ronaldson for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Ronaldson, it was available for as little as $30.00.