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Recent uploads
The last upload was September 2025.
Escritura Isabel, Gans specimen from Letterform Archive uploaded September 2025
Alphabete, Haas’sche Gießerei, ca. 1950 from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Kompakte Grotesk from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Altgrotesk Habfett from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Rhenania Kursiv from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Rhenania Antiqua from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Rhenania fett from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Rhenania halbfett from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Etienne enge halbfett from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Rhenania schmal halbfett from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Enge Grotesk from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
Commercial-Grotesk fett from Letterform Archive uploaded June 2025
IBM Selectric Univers (10 pt) from Letterform Archive uploaded April 2025
Houtsneeletter specimen (interior), Enschede, ca. 1928 from Letterform Archive uploaded March 2025
Houtsneeletter specimen (exterior), Enschede, ca. 1928 from Letterform Archive uploaded March 2025
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p46 — Tintoretto, Constantia, Iris
from Letterform Archive
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Florian Hardwig said:
One detail that got lost in the black-and-white reprint by Dover is that Tintoretto is the name of the bicolor set. The shadowed style on its own is named Virgil. It could be filled with the solid Aldo Manutio.
Revivals by Photo-Lettering and Letraset are named Tintoretto, but these versions actually correspond to the original Virgil.
Max Joseph Gradl, Petzendorfer’s Schriftenatlas (1903–1905) case cover
from Letterform Archive
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Letterform Archive said:
The case was also printed in a two-color version:
