Dan Reynolds on Nostr: I don’t know if this is gonna float anyone else’s boat, but it made my afternoon! ...

I don’t know if this is gonna float anyone else’s boat, but it made my afternoon! The nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqjcnk7e2exqcq07yazk0f9fkh38vrgqynzs7dkqxqqktpxp95nzqsx2a4zj (nprofile…a4zj) just uploaded its digitization of a specimen for Ramses, a serif typeface designed by Hermann Delitsch for Julius Klinkhardt around 1912. The specimen’s title page features a stylized ornament that depicts Pharaoh Ramesses II. I instantly recognized it! H. Berthold AG acquired Klinkhardt after WWI, and Joseph Tscherkassy – a Ukrainian-Jewish former typefounder who fled to Berlin during WWI – reused it on a page from his 1924 specimen H. Berthold AG’s Hebrew and Yiddish typefaces. I instantly recognized it from that catalog. In some quarters, it is considered the most beautiful metal type specimen ever printed.

https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1963801857&PHYSID=PHYS_0001&view=overview-toc&DMDID=

https://berlin.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=102887#map=1.38/1621.28/1361.67/0