Best type specimen book ever? 1907 Types of the De Vinne press
PabloImpallari
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Ok... maybe not the best (just joking). But this one is very different from every other type specimen book I've ever seen. Not for the typefaces, but for for the texts of each specimen. I'm loving it, can't stop reading.
A few excerpts:
Full: https://archive.org/stream/typesofdevinnepr00devirich#page/n0/mode/thumb
A few excerpts:
Full: https://archive.org/stream/typesofdevinnepr00devirich#page/n0/mode/thumb
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Another nice find, Pablo! Sometimes metal foundry specimen texts could be mildly self-deprecating and humorous (see Alastair Johnston’s great Alphabets to Order), but when a third party, like a press, made a specimen they had a lot more freedom to be funny.1
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