Alphabete und Ornamente für Skizzierzwecke

We’re of the opinion that modest publications are the best. Take this one as an example. It’s just cheap paper and astapled binding. It was just made to get a job done—and as such, it was used and there are no copies to be found anywhere in the U.S. But inside is a showing of typefaces from Schriftgiesserei Flinsch, the Frankfurt-based foundry that put out modern (for its time) faces. This is a showing of types released between 1905 and 1912. It’s nice in that is has full showings of large sizes. (The Wiener-Initialen is especially spectacular.) But are these showings large and complete because the title translates to “Alphabets and ornaments for sketching purposes”? Were printers meant to trace the types for mocking up layouts? That would certainly explain the couple of ghost letters where it looks like someone traced some letters with carbon paper (or whatever they had back then) going the wrong way. There’s a lot to steal and learn from here as it was made for stealing from. A lovely thing not made to be lovely. Include various weights (where applicable) of:

• Langschrift
• Wiener-Initialen
• Alpha-Beta
• Wegener-Initialen
• Ehmcke-Antiqua und Kursiv und Schmuck (Ornaments)
• Bernhard-Antiqua und Kursiv und Schmuck
• Neogotisch und Initialen
• Flinsch-Fraktur
• various ornaments, zodiac, and calendar vignettes