12.12.2008

Type Book








1930 - the News Chronicle newspaper is formed by the merger of the Daily News and the Daily Chronicle
1960 News Chronicle merges with the Daily Mail

This is the News Chronicle specimen book as complied by the Advertising director: W.E. Tomlin. Tomlin regarded this book as different from the ordinary newspaper type-book because it contained full alphabets on paper which didn't affect the visual weight of the face.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

very cool papers, they are a joy to look at

Anonymous said...

GRAT WORK KEEP IT UP. But it makes me think from where you get such cool stuff.

Avanti said...

you have a fantastic site... great pictures! Keep up the fab work! :)

O. Špánik said...

good idea, good blog

Anonymous said...

A great Sans serif typeface manuals !

get in here said...

Cool. I have a font fetish!

Anonymous said...

I just love it toooooooooooooooooo much. See how many ways count the ooooooo's in the to.
regards
Brigid

Hugo Connor said...

nice blogg,
thank you

Etan W. said...

i love looking through history.

Anonymous said...

Very good pictures, congratulations for your blog!

Marianela

High Power Rocketry said...

That is cool.`

Robert said...

Pretty interesting.

steviewren said...

Congrats on being chosen a blog of note.

Ar Rahn said...

top view, very nice job

Sabiq said...

nice..nice..nice... :D
i like it.. :D

ANashvilleSongblogger said...

Wow Very cool blog ,Awsome Graphics
very sharp crisp and well laid out blog

Thanks for sharing

Sophie said...

You know what I love to look at is the style and editing sheets at big papers like The New York Times... how they treat names, places, locations, capitalization... all of the above! Thanks for sharing these though!

Basir Seerat's Photography. said...

Excellent blog , lovely photos and meaningful.
i rally like this blog.

Coffee Messiah said...

Typography, it's come a long way, but needs to go back to the old days.

They were much more interesting! ; )

Nice blog! Cheers!

Autolycus said...

Ah, the News Chronicle. Never mind the typography, subsuming it into the Mail was the tragedy....

Anonymous said...

These are great!! I have some background in graphics and printing so I found these very cool!!!

jeffreygarofalo said...

Really nice, clean, modern, and Aksidenz Grotesk (I think).

I am Leisure Man said...

When it comes to blogs, I think you're my "type"