Harlem Text

This bold blackletter is rather wide, which enhances its readability. In Victorian job printing it was not unusual to find one line of blackletter in a card or handbill, just for contrast.

This one came on the scene sometime in the 1880s.

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blackletterdecorativedisplaydramaticgothichistoricalmedievalold englishornatespecial effecttexturedvintage