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Johnston’s Hamlet font

Posted on 5 August 201420 September 2015 by Sarah Werner

I’m excited to have contributed a post to HiLobrow’s Kern Your Enthusiasm series, which has a lot of smart, interesting people writing about a favorite (or not-favorite) font. For my bit, I wrote about the typefaces that Edward Johnston designed for the Cranach Press Hamlet, published in 1928. My opening gives you my take on the font: 

Posted in Wynken de WordeTagged fonts, know your history
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