Collection: Type Specimens
This amazing selection of hard-to-find vintage brochures, booklets and promotional material represents many of the world's leading type foundries and type designers.
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Specimens of Faces Linotype Matrix Information July 1953
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The Western Type Book 194 specimens of typefaces for books Hamish Hamilton 1970 new revised edition foreword by Hans Schmoller
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Type specimen booklet for Avantis | Berthold Types 176, undated
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Type specimen booklet for Mikaway | Berthold Types 176, undated
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Leaflet Type Monotype faces from The Hand Press, Summer 1990
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Type specimen sheet: A specimen of a classic book face Linotype Granjon Old Face, 1963
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Ludlow the Record Gothic Family. Ludlow Typograph Company, undated
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Two type specimens Ludlow Record Gothic supplements from Print in Britain 1961-2
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Ritmo type specimen leaflet for Società Nebiolo Aldo Novarase
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Monotype Newsletter No 4 July 1942 | Monotype Corporation | 4-page leaflet
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Monotype News Letter 18 | 23 February 1935 | Fold-out type specimen sheet
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Tower – type specimen sheet for American Type Founders ATF | Undated, presumed 1930s
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Bodoni Types | Soldans Limited type specimen leaflet, undated
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Soldans' Types specimen leaflet – Ludwig & Mayer Type Foundry | Soldans Limited
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Poliphilus type specimen leaflet – with the italic of Aldo Blado | Monotype Corporation
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Joanna type specimen leaflet | Eric Gill | Monotype Corporation 1937
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Charme – type specimen leaflet & inserts | Schriftgiesserei Ludwig & Mayer
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Mistral type specimen leaflet with 6 inserts | Typefoundry Amsterdam | Roger Excoffon
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Bell type specimen leaflet | Monotype Corporation, undated
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Deberny et Peignot Divertissements Typographiques | Type specimen sheet
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Metroblack / Times Heading Bold Condensed | 2-page type specimen card | William Addison Dwiggins
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Intertype Corporation – Two-Letter Display Faces | Type specimen brochure, undated
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Type specimen sheet – Rondine Alessandro Butti | Societá Nebiolo 1956 ?
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The Linotype Cheltenham Family type specimen brochure | April 1927
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Garaldus type specimen | Societá Nebiolo, Torino | Design Aldo Novarase, possibly 1957
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Type specimen – Rondo | Typefoundry Amsterdam | Design by Dick Dooyes, undated
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Type specimen sheet | Quirinus | Design by Alessandro Butti | Societá Nebiolo, undated
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Type specimen sheet Lucina from Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt am Main undated
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Alternative Characters. Figures and “Swash” Sorts | Monotype Corporation, undated
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Leaflet Monotype Centaur Victor Hugo Herman Zapf Manuale Typographicum, undated
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Egyptian Expanded Open | Stephenson Blake type specimen | Print in Britain, 1959
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Monotype 'Matura' 496 type specimen sheet | Monotype Corporation
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Dante the first use of Monotype’s new digital version of Dante presented at The Monotype Conference, London, 1991. First edition of 300 copies printed for The Monotype Conference, 1991 No 288/300. Text by John Dreyfus
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Private Press Types at Cambridge by Thomas Balston | Printing Historical Society, 2013
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Leaflet for Monotype Decorative Units Designed by John Peters. Leeds College of Technology Department of Printing, 1964
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How to Select Type Faces and how to make better use of machine faces. Intertype Corporation Brooklyn New York. Undated
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