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Carnival specimen from House Industries

A reverse-contrast advertising display face with roots in nineteenth-century poster type.

About

Carnival carries more weight in its horizontal strokes than its verticals, in the reverse-contrast tradition of 1800s poster faces, revived from an early-1940s Harold Horman original.

Classification

A reverse-contrast advertising display face rooted in 1800s poster type, with horizontal strokes carrying more weight than verticals.

Weights

Regular

Languages

Latin

Tags

displayreverse contrastposterrevivaladvertising