Pretty wild that Excoffon started with a disconnected chancery script before he ended up with something much more like 20th-century natural handwriting. Image from “The Development of Mistral.” Typographica 12, 1956.

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Introducing a new series of facsimiles that brings the best of our specimen collection to type fans everywhere. The first titles, devoted to Lucian Bernhard, Roger Excoffon, and Aldo Novarese, provide close-up and comprehensive deep-dives into the world of twentieth-century type through their foundry’s original booklets. Dig into the details with editor Chris Westcott: https://letterformarchive.org/news/inside-the-type-by-series-bernhard-excoffon-and-novarese/?utm_source=Mastodon

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Inside the Type By series: Bernhard, Excoffon, and Novarese

Three volumes of rare specimen facsimiles lift the curtain on twentieth-century type, gathering essential documents of trendsetting faces as they were first meant to be seen.

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New from Letterform Archive Books! The Type By series: a suite of portfolios with facsimiles of specimens for some of the greatest type design hits of the last century.

Issued here in their original trims and reproduced in full color, the facsimiles preserve the typefaces’ original details in various weights and sizes, as well as their creators’ ingenuity in marketing them in print.

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Le magnifique jeu des Mille Bornes avec entre autres la police Choc de Roger Excoffon

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Mille Bornes Card Game (1960 Parker Brothers Bilingual Edition)

Mille Bornes is a French version of an American card game that's been around in one version or another for more than a hundred years. The illustrations shown here are from the French edition of 1960, adapted by Parker Brothers in 1962. There's a wonderful graphic hist

Fonts in Use

Mistral in metal at Salt & Cedar’s delightful shoebox printshop in Paris. Each sort of Roger Excoffon’s masterful writing emulator is cast with an engraved label for easier setting.

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