Typography & [email protected]English • 2 months ago

1892 hit hard

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1892 hit hard

Typography & [email protected]English • 2 months ago

Joke aside, there are several cool fonts in this one from 1892:

https://archive.org/details/CentralBoston1892Specimen/page/n73/mode/2up

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Gothic Italic is very “one of these things doesn’t belong here.” It looks more 1940s.

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