Palmetto

Originally issued as Palm from the A. D. Farmer Foundry in New York, about 1887.

This is a good early example of the transition from the ruffles and fluorishes of Victorian fonts to the more restrained decoration that came to be called Art Nouveau.

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19th-centurybifurcated serifsdecorativedisplayflared serifshigh-contrasthistoricaloldstyleornateposterseriftuscanwesternwoodtype