TTYY PPE type specimen
Brittany Garuk
TYPE SPECIMEN This type specimen showcases the historically significant typefaces Electra, Nobel and Janson as they would be used during the time period that they were created. The Baroque, Geometric and 12th Century typefaces are honoured through the acknowledgement of the technical and social states in which they were originally designed.
Janson
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Nobel
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Electra
Miklós Kis
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Miklós Kis
J ·A ·N · S · O ·N This typeface is based on the designs by Anton Janson (1620-1698) and Hungarian-Transylvanian Miklós Tótfalusi Kis (1650-1702). Inspired by Dutch Baroque type, Janson makes for an even and regular body text. Mergenthaler Linotype created a revival designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1937. ¶The first American Ambassador to Great Britain, at the end of his official service, comes to Massachusetts on an interesting errand. He comes to deliver to the lineal successor of Governor Bradford, in the presence of the representatives and rulers of the body politic formed by the compact on board the "Mayflower," Nov. 11, 1620, the only authentic history of the founding of their Commonwealth; the only authentic history of what we have a right to consider the most important political transaction that has ever taken place on the face of the earth. ¶Mr. Bayard has sought to represent to the mother country, not so much the diplomacy as the good-will of the American people. If in this anybody be temped to judge him severely, let us remember what his great predecessor, John Adams, the first minister at the same court, representing more than any other man, embodying more than any other man, the spirit of Massachusetts, said to George III., on the first day of June, 1785, after the close of our long and bitter struggle for independence: "I shall esteem myself the happiest of men if I can be instrumental in restoring an entire esteem, confidence and affection, or, in better words, the old good-nature and the old good-humor between people who, though separated by an ocean and under different governments, have the same language a similar religion and kindred blood." ¶And let us remember, too, the answer of the old monarch, who, with all his faults, must have had something of a noble and royal nature stirring in his bosom, when he replied; "Let the circumstances of language, religion and blood have their natural and full effect."
baroque
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Regular, 20pt
ABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ
Designed by William Addison Dwiggins for Linotype in 1935. This typeface was influenced by Venetian Old Face fonts. It is associated with Art Deco and the German Bauhaus although it is a British
Regular, 14pt
Regular, 20pt
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typeface. In 1998 this 12th century serif won a certificate of excellence.
abcdefghijklmn opqrstuvwxyz
Cursive, 30pt
Cursive, 16pt
ABCDEFGHIJK LM NOPQRSTU VWXYZ 0123456789 &! ? ( ){ }
ELECTR A Electra has notably flat serifs and letters that are obtrusive. The Q has a distinctive tail as well. The f is unkerned while the
Cursive, 35pt
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t is unbracketed. The italic form is not exceptionally expressive.
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EE TTYY This type specimen showcases the historically significant typefaces Electra, Nobel and Janson as they would be used during the time
period that they were created. The Baroque, Geometric and 12th
Century typefaces are honoured through the acknowledgement of the technical and social states in which they were designed for.
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