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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.19

October 21, 2009 – 1:57 pm

Welcome to the nineteenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I have decided not to add a proof of the typeface as it is a relatively easy offering but I am looking for the name of the typeface and its’ designer.
The prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards [...]

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O thou beneficent Art & Mystery

April 8, 2009 – 3:16 pm

Here is an interesting example of hand typesetting; from the back cover of the Spring 1937 edition (Volume XXXVI, No. 1) of The Monotype Recorder. Personally, I feel the mix of Albertus Titling (Series 481) and Sachsenwald-Gotisch (Series 457) is rather clumsy, although it is undoubtedly a striking piece of letterpress typesetting.

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