Welcome to the sixteenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, all you need to do is identify the typeface shown below and email your answer to me.
Congratulations to the winner of this week’s competition, Catherine Dixon, who correctly identified the typeface as Fry’s Ornamented. Originally cut by Richard Austin in 1796, it was reissued in 1949 by the Sheffield typefounders’ Stephenson Blake who had acquired the matrices. Three additional sizes were cut in 1950.
