Typography: Peace and Joy

My holiday greeting from the early 1990s was based on the candy bar, Almond Joy. 

Since then the logo has changed. The wrapper was used on another chocolate bar.

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Typography: Merry Christmas/Happy New Year

My 1979/1980 Christmas and New Year card was printed front and back and used the typeface ITC Serif Gothic, which I modified by removing the serifs. My name was set in ITC Zapf Book. The star was hand-cut. Below is a scan of two cards.

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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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