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Cooper type specimen, circa 1925

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you've mentioned the type specimen for keedy sans before (& it features in your blog header), do you have any other type specimens you're fond of?

I like this animated specimen for Warning:

💬 0 🔁 7 ❤️ 15 · WARNING. A BOLD HEADLINE TYPEFACE INSPIRED BY A FLASH OF 1.5 SECONDS FROM THE ORIGINAL NEON GENESIS EVANGELION TV SERIES

And the Kablammo minisite:

MEET KABLAMMO 👀 THE DANCING FONT FROM OUTER 🛸 SPACE! AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE FONTS AND DESIGNED BY 🙃 VECTRO, IT FEATURES A ꩜ MOVEMENT AXIS 🌐 THA

Though maybe that's stretching the definition of "type specimen".

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An ad for the Letraset/ITC Fontek collection's 1995 releases, including the infamous Chiller and Jokerman (which I just now learned were both designed by the same guy).

ITC Chiller is awash with shocking splatters that give it a dangerous, reckless look. The typeface, designed by British designer Andrew Smith, was carefully calculated and is surprisingly legible, even in small sizes. A collection of alternate characters and ominous spot illustrations guarantee striking and effective graphics.

ITC Jokerman is a wildly original and energetic typeface from the hand of Andrew Smith. Fanciful internal and external elements support a spirit troupe of casual letterforms that exude excitement and vitality. ITC Jokerman is effective both in all capital or upper and lowercase settings. Many alternate letters and funky devices are included.

Greetings! It's been fascinating going through your posts and seeing all kinds of fonts/typefaces being identified from all kinds of media. I've noticed a few times, some fonts are dated from the early 1900s or even in the 1800s. I am very curious, are there any examples of fonts that are even earlier than that? Like from the mid to the late 18th century?

Fonts have existed since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. (Arguably longer, depending on your definition of "font".)

But until the 1800s, fonts generally weren't seen as unique designs, but as generic, interchangeable commodities. They didn't have names, and it's very difficult to tell one font from another.

Here's an example of a type specimen from 1768, where the fonts are identified by size ("English" ≈ 0.2 inches) and by founder:

Here's a couple of early examples of fonts with unique, identifiable designs, from 1805. But they still don't have names; they're both just labeled "ornamented":

The first of these was created in 1796, and came to be known as Fry's Ornamented [Fonts In Use]. I don't know anything about the second one.