Monticello (typeface)

Monticello is a typeface, a transitional, based upon the Roman Pica no.

It is considered the first typeface designed and manufactured in the United States.

American Type Founders Co. issued a version, based on the original molds, named Oxford.

In 1949, Linotype Corporation issued a Monticello typeface for hot metal machine composition for the published edition of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.

A digital version, also named Monticello, was issued in 2003 by Matthew Carter for the Jefferson Papers.