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The text in Ford Motor Company's logo is written in Spencerian script, as is the Coca-Cola logo. [11] It is speculated and highly likely that F. M. Robinson, a bookkeeper said to have named Coca-Cola, was trained in business and penmanship at Spencerian school, and suggested that it be engraved "Spencerian style."
After its decline and disappearance in printing in the early years of the 19th century, the long s persisted into the second half of the century in manuscript. In handwriting used for correspondence and diaries, its use for a single s seems to have disappeared first: most manuscript examples from the 19th century use it for the first s in a ...
Typefaces and fonts introduced in the 1890s (8 C) Pages in category "Typefaces and fonts introduced in the 19th century" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Stylistically the serif fonts of the mid-19th century appeared very robust and otherwise had more or less neo-classical design features, which changed during the course of time: By the application of the slab serif design feature and by appending serifs to more and more typefaces, an independent intermediate group of heterogeneous fonts emerged ...
Cloister Cursive Handtooled (1926, Benton), with Charles H. Becker. Cloister Black (1904, Benton), usually credited to Phinney, but many authorities give full credit to Benton. It is an adaptation of Priory Text , an 1870s version of William Caslon’s Caslon Text of 1734.
However, a few days later, Timothy Matlack professionally re-wrote the presentation copy of the Declaration in a fully joined, cursive hand. Eighty-seven years later, in the middle of the 19th century, Abraham Lincoln drafted the Gettysburg Address in a cursive hand that would not look out of place today.
A sample of News Gothic. A sample of Bank Gothic. A sample of Franklin Gothic.. All of Benton's typefaces were cut by American Type Founders.. Roycroft (c. 1898), inspired by lettering in the Saturday Evening Post and often credited to Lewis Buddy, though (according to ATF) designed “partly” by Benton.
A crossed letter, 1837, Ontario, Canada Cross-hatched letter of 1837, Massachusetts, USA.. A crossed letter is a manuscript letter which contains two separate sets of writing, one written over the other at right-angles.