Dublin 1848, caps-only heading with crossed V-form 'W'
Corset advertisement using multiple grotesque typefaces, United States, 1886
Light sans-serif being used for text, Germany, 1914
Small art-nouveau flourishes on 'v' and 'w'. Ljubljana, 1916.
Italic, Dublin, 1916
Nearly monoline and stroke-modulated sans; Austrian war bond poster, 1916
Broad block capitals. Hungarian film poster, 1918.
Monoline sans-serif with art-nouveau influenced tilted 'e' and 'a'. Embedded umlaut at top left for tighter linespacing.
Art Deco thick block inline sans-serif capitals, inner details kept very thin. France, 1920s.
Berthold Block, a thick German sans-serif with shortened descenders, allowing tight linespacing. Switzerland, 1928.
Artistic sans-serif keeping curves to a minimum (the line 'O Governo do Estado'), Brazil, 1930
Lightly modulated sans-serif lettering on a 1930s poster, pointed stroke endings suggesting a brush
Geometric sans-serif capitals, with sharp points on 'A' and 'N'. Australia, 1934.
Dwiggins' Metrolite and Metroblack typefaces, geometric types of the style popular in the 1930s
Stencilled lettering apparently based on Futura Black, 1937
A 1940s American poster. The curve of the 'r' is a common feature in grotesque typefaces, but the 'single-storey' 'a' is a classic feature of geometric typefaces from the 1920s onwards.
1952 Jersey holiday events brochure, using the popular Gill Sans-led British style of the period
Swiss-style poster using Helvetica, 1964. Tight spacing characteristic of the period.
Ultra-condensed industrial sans-serif in the style of the 1960s; Berlin, 1966
Neo-grotesque type, Switzerland, 1972: Helvetica or a close copy. Irregular baseline may be due to using transfers.
Tightly-spaced ITC Avant Garde; 1976
Governmental poster using Univers, 1980
Anti-nuclear poster, 1982
1997 film festival poster, Ankara
Letterpress poster by Alan Kitching, 2015