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Set your reproduction historic documents apart from the rest with the historically documented typefaces of the Printer's Type Case!
The Printer's Type Case is a CD-ROM collection of 24 the most popular and characteristic fonts, borders, and decorative flourishes of the mid 19th century. Culled from the very pages of original books, type specimens, catalogues, and broadsides, many from the Library of Congress, these typefaces are not modern interpretations, but the actual historical fonts that were in common use over 150 years ago!
Included are bold display fonts, ornamental dashes, brass frames, ovals, and circles for recreating period labels, a font of hilarious silhouettes from the 1855 edition of Peterson’s Magazine, as well as 4 borders coming directly from period broadsides. The Printer’s Type Case’s body typeface comes directly from the pages of a book of poetry printed in 1857, and the italic from a primary school reader printed in 1881. Original fonts from original books!
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A thoroughly researched 57-page PDF booklet documents the historic use of each font, including examples of each font in an original 19th century document from the Library of Congress’ Printed Ephemera collection!
Check it out!
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From the November 1864 Atlantic Monthly, the hilariously sarcastic “Sea Hours with a Dyspeptic” features the phrase “full chisel”- namesake for one of our fonts!
This PDF version is set “19th Century Book No.1” and “19th Century Italic” from The Printer’s Typecase!
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Twenty-five borders from documents in the Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection from the Library of Congress dating from between 1820 and 1865 make up this supplement to the Printer’s Type Case.
Coming Winter 2010-2011. |
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A collection of essential typefaces for any Civil War project, including the basic book types, a font based on brass stencils used to mark the soldier’s personal equipment, a popular 1860s marking brush seen in Thomas Le Clear’s painting “Young America,” as well as a hand-lettering font based on the handwriting of Henry S. Parmelee of the 1st C.T. Cavalry, and seen in Echoes of Glory: Arms and Equipment of the Union, page 223.
Coming Spring/Summer 2011. |
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