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.

Alphabet-Album | Joseph-Balthazar Silvestre, 1843 | Edited by J. Techener, Place du Louvre, No. 12

Alphabet-Album | Joseph-Balthazar Silvestre, 1843 | Edited by J. Techener, Place du Louvre, No. 12

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Signal Light/Medium/Black | Berthold Type Foundry type specimen leaflet | Design Walter Wege

Signal Light/Medium/Black | Berthold Type Foundry type specimen leaflet | Design Walter Wege

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Fanal type specimen sheet | Soldans Limited, undated | printed in Germany

Fanal type specimen sheet | Soldans Limited, undated | printed in Germany

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Firmin Didot roman/bold/italic | Ludwig & Mayer type specimen leaflet | Undated

Firmin Didot roman/bold/italic | Ludwig & Mayer type specimen leaflet | Undated

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Libra - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Undated c. 1950 de | Type designed by S. H. De Roos in 1937

Libra - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Undated c. 1950 de | Type designed by S. H. De Roos in 1937

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Steile Futura-Kursiv fett | Bauersche Gießerie type specimen | Paul Renner

Steile Futura-Kursiv fett | Bauersche Gießerie type specimen | Paul Renner

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Linotype Caslon Old Face Series specimen booklet | Linotype & Machinery, 1930

Linotype Caslon Old Face Series specimen booklet | Linotype & Machinery, 1930

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Phenix Condensed Gothic | American Type Founders type specimen leaflet | Undated

Phenix Condensed Gothic | American Type Founders type specimen leaflet | Undated

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Studio - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Dolf Overbeek, undated

Studio - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Dolf Overbeek, undated

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Consort | 8-page concertina-fold type specimen | Stephenson Blake, undated

Consort | 8-page concertina-fold type specimen | Stephenson Blake, undated

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Type specimen sheet for Fluidum | Type design by Alessandro Butto | Societá Nebiolo

Type specimen sheet for Fluidum | Type design by Alessandro Butto | Societá Nebiolo

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Slogan – type specimen leaflet | Società Nebiolo | Designed by Aldo Novarese, 1957

Slogan – type specimen leaflet | Società Nebiolo | Designed by Aldo Novarese, 1957

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Monotype/Lithotex folder, containing 36 type specimen sheets | Baskerville, Bembo, Univers etc

Monotype/Lithotex folder, containing 36 type specimen sheets | Baskerville, Bembo, Univers etc

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Haddon-Caxton Types | Poster (undated) and reprint (1909) from The British and Colonial Stationer

Haddon-Caxton Types | Poster (undated) and reprint (1909) from The British and Colonial Stationer

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Proben einiger Hausschriften der Offizin W. Drugulin | Leipzig 1924 limited edition – one of 500 copies

Proben einiger Hausschriften der Offizin W. Drugulin | Leipzig 1924 limited edition – one of 500 copies

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Spartan Medium and Medium Italic type specimen leaflet | American Type Founders, undated

Spartan Medium and Medium Italic type specimen leaflet | American Type Founders, undated

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Egmont – An Exclusive Intertype Face | Type specimen booklet

Egmont – An Exclusive Intertype Face | Type specimen booklet

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Immer vor dem Wind - mit Folio | Type specimen booklet | Harris-Intertype, undated

Immer vor dem Wind - mit Folio | Type specimen booklet | Harris-Intertype, undated

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Ruleform Composition the Economical Ludlow Way | Fold-out promotional poster

Ruleform Composition the Economical Ludlow Way | Fold-out promotional poster

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Schadow-Antiqua type specimen sheet | Schriftgiesserei C. E. Weber | Undated

Schadow-Antiqua type specimen sheet | Schriftgiesserei C. E. Weber | Undated

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Soldans type specimen – broadsheet and related letter | '16 x Bauer Folio' | West Germany, July 1966

Soldans type specimen – broadsheet and related letter | '16 x Bauer Folio' | West Germany, July 1966

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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Acte II Scene IV – Molière | Monotype specimen leaflet | Undated

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Acte II Scene IV – Molière | Monotype specimen leaflet | Undated

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Ideal – A Versatile Intertype Face | Intertype Corporation type specimen booklet

Ideal – A Versatile Intertype Face | Intertype Corporation type specimen booklet

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Type specimen brochure American Type Founders | Style Book on Bulmer, by George F. Trenholm 1940s?

Type specimen brochure American Type Founders | Style Book on Bulmer, by George F. Trenholm 1940s?

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