Vintage French type specimen books

Written by Imar. Posted on November 17, 2011. Filed under Artefacts. Tagged , , . Bookmark the Permalink. Post a Comment. Leave a Trackback URL.

I found these in pilllpat (agence eureka)’s Flickr photostream. She has a huge collection of high res scans from old publications, well worth a look.

Album du peintre en batîment (1882):

Interesting to note the missing W from these earlier specimens as it was very rarely used in French.

Album du peintre en batîment 01

Album du peintre en batîment 02

Album du peintre en batîment 03

Album du peintre en batîment 04

100 Alphabets Publicitaires (1946):

Alphabets Publicitaires 01

Alphabets Publicitaires 02

Alphabets Publicitaires 03

Alphabets Publicitaires 04

La Lettre (1957):

La Lettre 01

La Lettre 02

La Lettre 03

La Lettre 04

One Comment

  1. Russ
    Posted February 13, 2013 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    Hello,

    What are the closest types (fonts) you can buy to the first one in this article? Thanks!

    -Russ

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