Go back to article: Technologies of Romance: on the choice of a typeface for a book and the possibilities for technological Romance

Figure 2

Photograph of the Electra font

© Jeremy Tankard

For the curious, this is what the typeface Electra looks like. It was coincidentally designed by Dwiggins and is shown here as printed in his Emblems and Electra (Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1935)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/191211/008