{"id":31100,"date":"2012-01-22T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=31100"},"modified":"2013-04-29T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:43:32","slug":"1912-american-type-founders-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/31100","title":{"rendered":"1912 American Type Founders + more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Originator of Type Fashions’<\/em><\/p>\n

American Type Founders’<\/a> complete 1912 specimen book. 1348 pages.<\/p>\n

Entire book posted online here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The industrial revolution changed the size of font offerings. What were once posters or broadsheets from small type foundries, ‘type specimens’ became elaborate volumes \u2013 today collected as rare editions. <\/p>\n

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\nSince 2007, Open Library<\/a> has been digitizing rare type specimens. Available to read online or as PDF downloads.<\/p>\n

I found out about them just this weekend \u2013\u00a0font specialist Laurence Penney<\/a> had posted links on his Twitter feed. These are them:<\/p>\n

Caslon, 1785<\/a>
\nBinney & Ronaldson, 1812<\/a>
\nMontreal Type Foundry, 1850<\/a>
\nBoston Type Foundry, 1860<\/a>
\nFann Street Foundry, 1874<\/a>
\nCincinnati Type Foundry, 1882<\/a>
\nAllison & Smith, 1889<\/a>
\nCleveland Type Foundry, 1895<\/a>
\nInland Type Foundry, 1897<\/a>
\nToronto Type Foundry, 1899<\/a>
\nKeystone Type Foundry, 1906<\/a>
\nBarnhart Bros. & Spindler 1907<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nOne of my favorites, here’s a link<\/a> to Bauer’s offerings from 1900.<\/p>\n

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Found via Hoefler+Frere-Jones,<\/a> Lawrence Penney,<\/a> Oded Ezer,<\/a> Nina Stoessinger,<\/a> Falstaff & Fakir<\/a> and Kris Sowersby<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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