Royal Society of Arts 250th Anniversary stamps
Contributed by Stephen Coles
on Jan 30th, 2015. Artwork published in
August 2004
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A series of stamps designed by Derek Birdsall in 2004 for the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Society of Arts. The only typeface used here that isn’t quintessentially British is Typo Upright, a 1905 American Type Founders revival of French script styles.
3 Comments on “Royal Society of Arts 250th Anniversary stamps”
The typewritten text on the 43p value is probably just that — made with an actual typewriter. As far as fonts go, FF Elementa comes pretty close.
Florian — Birdsall is a big fan of Berthold’s Schreibmaschinenschrift, which he used for his own Notes on Book Design that very same year. Could it be used here as well ?
Stéphane, that’s an excellent pointer! Yes, it definitely looks like Berthold’s Schreibmaschinenschrift. Added, thanks.
Below is a glyph set for this generically named “typewriter typeface”, made at Berthold in 1969.
Glyph set for Schreibmaschinenschrift in a Typeshop catalog from around 1977. The typesetter didn’t get the memo that this was supposed to be a monospaced design.