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1880–1900
Posted by zoran.konjarski in
18 Oct 2010 — 3:45pm
18 Oct 2010 — 3:45pm
Hello Typophiles.
Wondering if anyone could list a whole heap of fonts from around the year 1900.
Thanks.
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18 Oct 2010 — 3:48pm
http://www.klingspor-museum.de/Schriftgiessereien.html
Many foundries, most with release dates listed
18 Oct 2010 — 4:02pm
Get out your super peepers: here are the first three table of contents pages from the ATF 1899 Specimen Book...
18 Oct 2010 — 4:54pm
Examples of same...
Borussian... http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/mckellar-borussian-nf/regular/
Boston Black...
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/boston-blackie-nf/boston-blackie...
Fillet... http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/streamers-nf/streamers-nf/charac...
Karnac... http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/great-sage-nf/great-sage-nf/char...
Medallic... http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/grand-prairie-wbw/grand-prairie-...
18 Oct 2010 — 5:17pm
An excellent place to find specimen books from that period is
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Just search for "specimen book" or "type founder" with media type Texts, and you should find plenty.
18 Oct 2010 — 11:26pm
Thanks