Design Observer: Steven Heller on an Experiment with Typography in Vanity Fair, Circa 1930

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For five months, the magazine indulged in “the new typography” by switching to Futura and doing away with all capital letters in headlines on columns and feature articles. Editor Frank Crownishield’s remarkably literate musings on the experiment are well worth a read.

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