Quality Type Listings - Indiana, USA

[Dave Hughes]

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36 pt Sans Serif Light (Mono) for Letterpress Type for printing #2*

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Seller's description:

"Sans Serif is a general term for serifless types, particularly the newly proportioned faces of that sort which originated in Germany in the 1920's, as opposed to the older, traditional gothics. It is also the unimaginative name for Monotype's extensive series which began as a copy of one of the most popular of the German faces, Rudolf Koch's Kabel, sometimes called Cable, named in celebration of the opening of the trans-Atlantic telephone cable connecting America and Europe. Koch's face appeared about 1927, with Monotype copying the Light and Bold in 1930."*

* Mac McGrew, "American Typefaces of the Twentieth Century", Second Revised Edition, p. 279.

This is a very clean and uber complete set. Please see the misfonts of "f", "g", "h", and "q" (found at the end of the lowers and before the figures). 

NOTE: Harvested from the private collection of Dave Churchman, APA 308. You may have seen this font in the chaotic background of the letterpress documentary, "Pressing On".

Thanks!
Gretchen

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