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Weltall und Weltgefühl

Photo(s) by Philipp Messner. Imported from Flickr on Oct 13, 2014. Artwork published in .
Weltall und Weltgefühl
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Detail from Satz- und Druck-Musterheft 1936 (no pagination)

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1 Comment on “Weltall und Weltgefühl”

  1. Strange and scary to see these big lofty words (“Outer space”, “World feeling”) advertising a typeface with such a narrow-minded and opportunistically nationalist name, three years before World War II.

    See also Paul Shaw’s article on the 1938 edition of Satz- und Druck-Musterheft and the typography in Nazi Germany.

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