American Proprietary Typefaces historyoftypedesignlithos It’s got five fives and

It’s got five fives and is printed in five colors

Smith College hosted a conference in honor of Sanger

They got BR in to look at what was being done and he prepared this report

The whole gathering shows the remarkable variety and vitality of typography now—or

When Goudy said that all the old guys stole the best ideas

American Proprietary Typefaces historyoftypedesignlithos It’s got five fives andIn these first days of 2026, its easy to forget that at one time in history, a proprietary typeface was a rare thing. It took a lot of work to make type. Yeah, yeah. We know. It still does. But in the hot type era, it was a different kind of work. It took forever and was incredibly expensive. Now everyone and every company has a custom typeface. But this is a book about American proprietary typefaces in the early twentieth century, when such a thing