Typography: Bock Ngar Chy Co., Part 2

Bock Ngar Chy Co., Specimen Book
San Francisco, California

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(Next post on Monday: Bob Leatherbarrow, Artist, Letterer, Art Director and Photographer)

Typography: Fortune Cookie Day

Fortune Cookie Day is September 13. Years ago fortune cookie fortunes were printed by letterpress.

 






















(Next post on Monday: Jimi Hendrix Tribute House)

Typography: New Chinatown and Exception

Los Angeles Chinatown

Exception Shop in Guangzhou, China

Today is the Chinese New Year 4713
 the Year of the Goat / Ram / Sheep

Related post: Chop Suey

(Next post on Monday: Chinese Oreo Cookies, Part 4)

Typography: Letterpress Printers

Bowne & Co., Stationers

South Street Seaport Museum

New York, New York

The Picture Alphabet.

selected pages

The South Street Counting Book.

selected pages

Exotic and Unusual Printing Terms

8 Postal Cards

Folder and three of the eight postal cards

Cycling Frog Press

Sam Antupit

(Next post on Monday)

Typography: Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings

My Christmas card from 1977 was printed by letterpress.

The typography was made with Letraset transfer type,

and is from the Kabel family. I glued a candy cane to the

card. Some cards were hand-delivered. To mail the cards,

I constructed, out of foam board, a protective case, then

inserted it in an envelope. Most cards arrived intact. The

image is an enhancement of a slightly faded photograph.

The card measured 4.125 by 6 inches / 10.5 by 15.2

centimeters. Below is the letterpress type block.

Many years later I revised the card design and wording.

I used wood type fonts from Dan X. Solo's Dover books.

The words were pasted, with wax, on a board; on the

left margin I wrote the percentages next to each word.

Then I photostatted each word and pasted them down

on a board. Then the rules and ornaments were added.

Most of the cards were mailed as is, but some cards had

a cellophane-wrapped candy cane stapled to the card. The

card measured 3.5 by 9 inches / 8.9 by 22.9 centimeters.

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