Tuesday, January 15, 2013

1920's fonts




From American Type Founders: (late 20s - early 30s)
Lightline Gothic
Poster Gothic
Gothic No. 544
Franklin Gothic
Alternate Gothic No.1, 2 & 3
Raleigh Gothic Condensed
Agency Gothic





1927

Wotan


Enge Wotan


Futura bold


Venus


Erbar bold italic


Erbar bold


Kabel bold


1928

Berthold-Grotesk

Berthold-Grotesk light

Futura bold

Neuzeit-Grotesk bold

Elegant-Grotesk

Elegant-Grotesk bold

Gill bold

1929
Neuzeit-Grotesk xtrabold italic
Erbar-Grotesk condensed

Erbar-Grotesk bold

Kabel xtrabold

Monument, Schnitt 13


Technically speaking...

The 1920s is prior to the development of Times as a newspaper font. San serifs didn't appear until 1928 (Futura) and wouldn't be used for body text anyway.

Likely choices would be pretty pedestrian: Garamond, Jenson, Baskerville, and wouldn't really date the paper. Killigrew or some other blackface style is great for the newspaper title.

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