Celtic

34 Line

Box 085

Antique | Clarendon | Uppercase

simple specimen of Celtic wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly collection, printed in the UT Design Lab
simple specimen of Celtic wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly collection, printed in the UT Design Lab

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Additional Specimens & Other Content

antique original wood type specimen catalog from wood type manufacturers in the 1800s featuring Celtic type

Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c. Manufactured by Wm. H. Page & Co. Greeneville Conn. (1874); ATF Library Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

two layers of Celtic layered with each other, the solid pink layer combined with the decorative green layer to make a two-color print

Example of chromatic pairing.

Celtic specimen book page from American Wood Type 1828-1900 by Rob Roy Kelly

Celtic, page 256, American Wood Type 1828–1900, Rob Roy Kelly (1969)