The Double Hook by Sheila Watson

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:16:00 +0000

Photo(s) by Steve on Flickr.

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Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook is considered “a seminal work in the development of contemporary Canadian literature”, and “Canada’s first modernist novel due to how it ‘departs from traditional plot, character development, form and style to tell a poetic tale of human suffering and redemption that is at once fabular, allegorical and symbolic.’” [Wikipedia] First issued in 1959, this is the cover of a paperback edition published in 1960 by McClelland and Stewart in their New Canadian Library series.

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Metra tickets, 1990–1991

Florian Hardwig — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:50:00 +0000

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans

February 1990 ft. Italia Bold

C82 is the website of Nicholas Rougeux, a Chicago-based designer and data artist. One of the many great things one can find on C82 is his collection of train tickets sold by Metra. Every month, the commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area releases a new ticket design. In 2004, Nick started collecting. Over the years, and with the help from other ephemera enthusiasts as well as of Metra, the archive considerably grew in size. At the time of writing, it includes an impressive 1,395 tickets, spanning more than fifty years of commuter history.

This post highlights the monthly tickets from 1990 and 1991. In a recent blog update, Nick comments:

In the early 90s, ticket designs varied significantly with new typography and visual styles appearing each month. I can’t say these are some of my favorites but I recognize that this may have been in an effort to curb counterfeiting. However, I do enjoy some of the typography from the 1990s tickets. I owe a big thanks to fellow collector John for these and others.

Each of the tickets features a different typeface. Many of the chosen fonts stem from the libraries of ITC (Korinna, Quorum, Serif Gothic, Zapf Chancery, …) and Letraset (Caxton, Italia, Romic (Letraset), …). There are also classics that go back to the era of foundry type, like Beton, City, or Optima, and Monotype originals like Albertus and Plantin. The typographic smorgasbord is completed by designs as diverse as Moderne Schwabacher, a turn-of-the-century blackletter; Salut, an upright script first cast by Gebr. Klingspor in the 1930s; and Checkmate, a futuristic sans with chamfered corners, dreamt up at Schaedler in the 1970s – all of which were either used still as phototype, or in the form of early digitizations.

For the year 1990, all abbreviated month names are shown in vertically stretched letterforms. The source of the stacked numerals (“90”) was identified by Quinn as City Bold, see comments. The bitmap caps (“D/A”) are likely custom. While the spelled-out month names and the ticket numbers are similar to OCR-B, the specific font appears to be a proprietary design with some differences, probably from a specialized printing machine.

The Metra logo seen on the depicted train as well as on some of the tickets is Crillee. See also the dedicated post about it.

March 1990 ft. Macbeth

April 1990 ft. City Bold

May 1990 ft. Checkmate

June 1990 ft. Roberta

July 1990 ft. what appears to be a version of Filmotype Amber (or a similar face)

August 1990 ft. Salut

September 1990 ft. Moderne Schwabacher a.k.a. Chalet Text

October 1990 ft. Clarendon Condensed

November 1990 ft. Beton Bold Condensed

January 1991 ft. ITC Quorum Bold

February 1991 ft. ITC Kabel Ultra

March 1991 ft. ITC Serif Gothic Heavy with the pointed forms for M and A that were omitted from the digital version. “March 1991” uses ITC Korinna and Times New Roman.

April 1991 ft. a bold variant of Plantin

May 1991 ft. a bold variant of Albertus

June 1991 ft. Caxton Bold

July 1991 ft. Optima Bold

August ft. ITC Cheltenham Bold

September 1991 ft. ITC Zapf Chancery Bold with the alternate swash caps

October 1991 ft. a bold variant of Century Oldstyle

November 1991 ft. Romic (Letraset) Bold

December 1991 ft. ITC Berkeley Oldstyle

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Jimmy Bryant – Laughing Guitar, Crying Guitar album art

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:38:37 +0000

A slightly squeezed phototype version of Salut (Klingspor, 1931) in all-lowercase letters, for the cover of an album of instrumental country music by guitarist Jimmy Bryant (1925–1980), released on Imperial Records in 1966. Art direction by Woody Woodward, with photography by Ken Kim.

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Osram-Lampen

Florian Hardwig — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:07:14 +0000

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Source: www.flickr.com Philipp Messner. License: CC BY-NC.

Exemplary use of Heinrich Maehler’s Salut — type promotion in the form of a light bulb ad. Note the use of ‘ſ’ (long ‘s’; e.g. in sind, line 2) and of a ligature for ‘ch’ (e.g. in erhältlich, last word). Neither the official digitization of Salut nor the free Unicorn has an eszett that lives up to the original (see Außenseite, line 4).

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1970s Slim Jim ads

Stephen Coles — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:41:18 +0000

Salut in use

The Double Hook by Sheila Watson

Metra tickets, 1990–1991

Jimmy Bryant – Laughing Guitar, Crying Guitar album art

Osram-Lampen

1970s Slim Jim ads