I could spend all day reading this.

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The Big Book of Fonts, 1912 Edition

Via Kottke.org:

The Internet Archive is hosting a copy of the American Specimen Book of Type Styles put out by the American Type Founders Company in 1912. It’s a 1300-page book listing hundreds of typefaces and their possible use cases.

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