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Typographica · 3w
When you’re writing a book on type history, and diving into thousands of specimens, stuff starts to stick out that you may never have noticed before. Here’s a little thread about Flöckinger’s p...
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Aside: Back in the States, The Inland Printer’s J. L. Frazier featured Flöckinger’s Ohmen Pianos letterhead in his long-running “Specimen Review” column (see https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78047/superior-typesetting-co-ad-inland-printer-rep), but laments that it represents “an extreme that would not be favored generally in America.”

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-printer_1927-02_78_5/mode/2up?q=%22hans+fl%C3%B6ckinger%22

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Typographica · 3w
Berthold was such a fan of these samples they reprised them in at least two subsequent booklets (unfortunately, without credit). Joseph Tscherkassky (1879–1958), a Ukrainian typefounder who became manager of the Oriental Department at the foundry, copied some spreads nearly wholesale, yet adapted ...