#artisticprinting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #artisticprinting, aggregated by home.social.
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Finally pulled one of the labels for a @FontsInUse post: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/76220/j-adolph-boyken-face-powder-label Four of these typefaces hadn’t yet appeared in a Use on the site.
#Typography #Typefaces #Victorian #VictorianDesign #ArtisticPrinting #Ephemera
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I will never not be mesmerized by the elaborately galactic and symmetrical specimen pages from the “artistic printing” era, demonstrating circles, ovals, rules and other border elements.
Here are a few from a 1910 Schelter & Giesecke catalog, the latest addition to the Typographica Library listing of online type specimens. More info in the Flickr caption. https://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/albums/72177720304022148
#TypeSpecimen #ArtisticPrinting #SchelterAndGiesecke #1910s #LetterpressPrinting