Typographic monstrosities

Autor/Urheber:

Thomas Curson Hansard

Shortlink:

https://www.dewiki.de/b/2ddc98

Quelle:

Wikimedia Commons

Größe:

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Beschreibung:

In 1825, Thomas Curson Hansard expressed amusement at the increasing use of eye-catchingly bold type for printing advertisements in Britain. Let's take a look at what he found absurd: blackletter type (I'm not sure why he didn't like this although the historical authenticity is probably rather doubtful and it's certainly very bold), slab serif type with a monoline structure and 'Italian' or reverse-contrast type.

Lizenz:

Public domain

Credit:

Typographia (1825), digitisation via the Internet Archive

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