Hi,
I am wondering are there any font catalogues that shows all the alphabet and number samples of the photo-lettering fonts?
The Alphabet Thesaurus Volumes do not seems to contain the complete samples...
Typophile
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Hi Don,
You are right... After further research I found out that they did published another catalogue called "Film Alphabet Compendium Franklin Photolettering" which contains all the alphabet and number samples. It was in a binder format.
I would be interested to know if anyone is willing to sell their copy to me. Price will be negotiable...
The Alphabet Thesaurus was published by Photo-Lettering Inc., not Franklin Photolettering Inc. Franklin did do some knockoffs of PhotoLettering's stuff but they were tiny in comparison, size-wise. House Industries is the current owner of the entire Photo-Lettering Inc. collection.
The Alphabet Thesaurus Volume 2 does contain extended samples of the fonts in the back of the book, about eight or nine point, but none of the samples show complete alphabets. The missing letters are not consistent either but vary from font to font.
It might be possible to eventually find a copy for sale on eBay. That's how I finally acquired my copy, using eBay's emailed watch list feature. They aren't easy to find.
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I have not seen the books from the later years, but I understand that as a supplement to the display size font in use phrase -- their established practice -- they included an appendix in 8 point type that showed more.
Perhaps someone with the later books could clarify.
Don