Typophile

Looking for a vintage typeface (20s to 50s)

commodity

Hi all,

Please, help me. I'm doing a book cover for a professor of mine, and i'm looking for some kind of vintage typeface to go along with it. I'm trying to simulate a vintage poster from the 20s up to 50s, as the book is about a sculptor from that time.

Here are some links to some works that are similar to what I have in mind:

http://flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/2149982374/in/pool-vtype
http://flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/2149997100/in/photostream/
http://flickr.com/photos/apricot_x/1404181266/in/pool-vtype
http://flickr.com/photos/sarahbrownandpink/1082929956/in/pool-vtype

From what I could see, people really liked to use typefaces in an ascendent slope.

Please excuse my engrish!
Marco

Claus Eggers Sø...

Have you tried searching Myfonts with 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s?
eg. http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=20s

Don McCahill

Also search for the term Art Deco ... that was prevalent during those years. (at least the first part)

Nick Shinn

Are you familiar with the Gans foundry?
http://www.unostiposduros.com/pdf/gans.pdf
I don't know anything about South American foundries, so I'm making some assumptions here--that the subject of the book is South American, and that the Gans typefaces would have been popular in South America during the 20s--50s, or at least have a similar Latin personality to ones that were popular then and there.

commodity

Hey guys, I appreciate the feedback! You have helped me very much! Thank you all!

Scalfin

http://www.marx-brothers.org/poster.htm

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