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Advertising (682)
Album Art (749)
Art/Illustration (214)
Booklets/Pamphlets (580)
Books (1759)
Branding/Identity (1934)
Ephemera (236)
Exhibition/Installation (215)
Film/Video (216)
Infographics/Maps (188)
Magazines (727)
Mobile (112)
Newspapers (137)
Object/Product (250)
Packaging (595)
Posters/Flyers (1298)
Signs (617)
Software (96)
Tablet/iPad (85)
Web (1434)

Abril Text (21)
Adelle (27)
Adobe Caslon (34)
Akkurat (42)
Akzidenz-Grotesk (128)
Albertus (40)
Alright Sans (28)
Alternate Gothic (54)
ITC American Typewriter (23)
Ano (20)
Antenna (34)
Antique Olive (38)
Aperçu (31)
Archer (27)
Arial (67)
Atlas Grotesk (20)
ITC Avant Garde Gothic (96)
Avenir (43)
Avenir Next (23)
Baskerville (34)
FF Bau (23)
Bello (24)
Benton Sans (67)
Bickham Script (24)
Big Caslon (20)
Block (25)
Bodoni (71)
Bookman (24)
Brandon Grotesque (55)
Brothers (26)

Gill Kayo (59)
Gill Sans (117)
Gotham (128)
Graphik (44)
GT Sectra (26)
GT Walsheim (39)
Harbour (55)
Helvetica (308)
Hobo (26)
Interstate (70)
Kabel (41)
Kabel Black (34)
Knockout (83)
LL Brown (43)
LL Circular (40)
ITC Lubalin Graph (20)
Lydian (28)
Lyon (38)
FF Mark (24)
Mercury (24)
FF Meta (30)
FF Meta Serif (21)
Miller (38)
Minion (31)
Mistral (24)
Monotype Grotesque (37)
Mrs Eaves (22)
National (23)
Neue Haas Grotesk (22)
Neue Helvetica (96)

Neutraface (56)
Neuzeit S (21)
News Gothic (60)
Open Sans (23)
Optima (39)
Palatino (21)
Plantin (22)
Proxima Nova (62)
Replica (25)
Rockwell (21)
Sabon (26)
ITC Serif Gothic (52)
Skolar (30)
ITC Souvenir (33)
Suisse Int’l (41)
Telefon (26)
Tempo (23)
Tiempos (44)
Times (37)
Times New Roman (60)
Trade Gothic (91)
Tungsten (25)
Ultra Bodoni (19)
unidentified typeface (159)
Univers (163)
Univers Ultra Condensed (22)
Venus (28)
Verlag (32)
Whitney (26)
Windsor (45)

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Flash

Two weights by Edwin W. Shaar for Lanston Monotype. Light was released in 1939, Bold in 1940. [Reichardt]

Linotype’s and URW’s digital version of Flash Bold is called Okay.

Foundries

Designers

Edwin W. Shaar

Release Date

1939

Sources

Info

Flash in use

Let’s Talk Type! from Metropolis newspaper1977

Mark Simonson
Metropolis Weekly Newspaper

Contributed by Mark Simonson

<cite>Let’s Talk Type! </cite>from <cite>Metropolis </cite>newspaper

Talc Magazine2013

Edward Vince
Vince & Son

Contributed by Shiva Nallaperumal

<cite>Talc</cite> Magazine

Strength Thru Oi!1981

unknown

Contributed by Ben Anslow

Strength Thru Oi!

Sponsor

La Souterraine poster seriesc. 2015

Brest Brest Brest

Contributed by 205TF

La Souterraine poster series

Agadoo by Black Lacec. 1984

Contributed by Robert Pariseau

<cite>Agadoo</cite> by Black Lace

See Red poster: self defencec. 1980

See Red Women’s Workshop

Contributed by Stephen Coles

See Red poster: self defence

Cichy Zaułek Movie Poster1984

Witold Dybowski

Contributed by Stephen Coles

<cite>Cichy Zaułek</cite> Movie Poster

Murder Can’t Stop by W.T. Ballard1953

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

<cite>Murder Can’t Stop</cite> by W.T. Ballard

Working at the Maize1953

Contributed by Stephen Coles

<cite>Working at the Maize</cite>

Master of the House by Lilian Peake1974

Bern Smith

Photo(s) by “Steve” on Flickr.

<cite>Master of the House</cite> by Lilian Peake

Still by Commodores1979

Contributed by Cave Grove

<cite>Still</cite> by Commodores

The Big Kill by Mickey Spillane1951

Lu Kimmel

Photo(s) by “Steve” on Flickr.

<cite>The Big Kill</cite> by Mickey Spillane