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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.

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J. Adolph Boyken Face Powder label

McNeil Bros. was a San Jose printer specializing in labels. Their 1885 catalog, Specimens of Druggist Labels…, is an explosion of eccentric type and ornament in fancy frames, offering hundreds of examples of artistic printing from the real world. This label combines seven very

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Typographica Nov 27, 2022

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

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Schelter & Giesecke (FR), 1910

A French catalog for Leipzig type foundry Schelter & Giesecke. This is the latest addition to the Typographica Library’s list of type manufacturer’s catalogs available online. This book, from the collection of Sabine Millecamps, is hosted at Immaterielles.org.

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