Back in the 80s, foundries spent a lot of money printing specimen booklets. I recently found some of the brochures we designed back then.
I scanned 23 brochures and put them into one document. For the purpose of this blog, I made low-res PDFs (still 2.2 MB): While you cannot appreciate typographic details at that resolution, you’ll still discover some faces you’ve probably never heard of. A lof of designers at MetaDesign had a go at these specimen brochures. I don’t remember who did which one, so I cannot credit individuals for fear of forgetting some of them. They could write and remind me.
