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Timeless question: “Can it be ... that there are too many type faces for printers and advertisers? It appears, upon inquiry, that there are. It appears that a goodly number of discriminating compositors *agree* that a few faces of type are worthy of valuable case room and that a great many others are not; that, among the types in their cases, some few earn their way, while many gather the dust of oblivion ...”

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Typographica · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqaz06pe0rpdm5nmrw4s4cpn0lfqh6e2tluteq5h5d59dnx0thcz9q228kyx Yeah, I found it funny that their main point of the exercise was that it’s past time to toss all the "less useful" typefaces, while I’m over here for the last 20 years preaching typo...
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While rummaging around in some old files looking for something else, I stumbled across these old marker sketches. (Who remembers making marker roughs? ✋)

These would have been concepts for a Font Bureau 20th-anniversary campaign back in 2009. If I had to guess, this would probably have been a full-page ad in Eye (or maybe Print, or CA?)

I can’t actually say whether either of these was produced. I don’t recall making up final art, and I didn’t have any tear sheets in that file. So probably not?