More Typogrammoricon!

This is our 11th post from the 1906 American Line Type Book. I like this page, because American Type Founders offers to custom-design & cut a logo for their clients, and shows some examples - so you get to see some typical turn-of-the-century logos. Very different from the logos of today, when kabillions of various effects can be created & reproduced. We’ve also clipped the logos out & zoomed in so you can see them better.

Since once again: we find inclusion of this kind of type history info important (in our own very special OCD way) but maybe not-so-very fun or glitzy ; ] we’re also giving you several ornaments from later pages. A big bowl of fruit! A MENU header in beautifully florid Edwardian style!! (They are high-resolution jpgs, cleaned-up and suitable for 300 dpi print work.)

Later in the book, you’ll be seeing the rest of these Cafe/Menu illustration & ornament plates - and pages and pages and pages of other gorgeous and intricate images that were offered for sale as movable type: very useful to the job printer without money or resources for for commissioned illustration.

We’ll be back with more soon.

(This type book - from 1906 - is in the public domain; it is scanned from our own hardcopy.)

(Source: ragtagdesign.com)