Alfereta

This popular type was manufactured by the Crescent Type Foundry of Chicago and sold on their behalf by a half dozen other foundries. Introduced in the early 1890s, just as tastes were swinging away from the excesses of the Victorian period.

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blackletter-influencedcalligraphicdecorativedisplaydramatic capitalsflared terminalsgothic revivalhigh-contrast strokeshistoricalmedievalornamental swashespointed serifsserifsolotype