Letterology
Showing posts with label Initial Caps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Initial Caps. Show all posts
Monday, July 14, 2014

The Biggest Catch of Fish Lettering

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Although several nice versions of this Prichard & Knoll trade card with novelty fish lettering were produced in the later 19th c...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

A Torch for Printing

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A young Albert Maertens of Seattle made this book on The History of Printing for Miss Levine's class assignment in 1930. I found th...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Seasonal Typographic Adornments

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On the heels of yesterday's post on the book  Snowflakes and the "initial snow caps", I present another popular late 19th C...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

1863 Book of Snowflakes

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Snowflake lettering as decorative as the ice crystals themselves.       Snow-flakes, A Chapter From the Book of Nature  was first publishe...
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LETTEROLOGY Letǝrälǝjē | noun 1. The study of characters and symbols of an alphabet representing one or more sounds used in speech. 2. written, typed or printed communication in the form of a document, a book, or manuscript. 3. literature: the world of letters 4. printing a style of letters, text or marks on paper or other substrate. 5. ephemera containing printed text and decorations 6. the intersection of typography, books and design
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