The Selection Of Type Is Just As Important As The Selection Of Words (1939?)

Feb 27, 2012



An "Alphabetical Index to Type Faces" from the G.A. Davis Printing Company. What it says on the tin, but also generator of bizarre 'accidental' sentences such as "Summer-time with outdoor pleasures become flowers with nature", "Domestic animals are nuisance when a hurry to men", "Strong type faces used cold north winds" and the occasional poem: "History repeats itself as the years pass / Internal injuries are weakening / Injurious statements make yonder river flows fast".
NB: The publishing date of 1900 given in the Internet Archive link appears to be incorrect, with some of the typefaces not being invented until the mid-30s. There is no indication of publishing date on the scanned copy itself, though there is a Library of Toronto stamp dated October 1939.