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3rd edition of the “Drawing Character Design Collection” reprint series!

A fun and beautiful world of English letters invented in the 1960s, at the dawn of design. Chapter 1, ``English Style,'' covers 70 patterns of various decorative and artistic styles, including practical alphabet and alphanumeric fonts written on post-war printed matter, bulletin boards, signboards, etc. Based on this, Chapter 2, ``English Monograms,'' includes approximately 1,000 variations of monograms that combine ABC and numbers from all angles.

This book is a complete compilation of the ``Hentai English Character Design Collection'' (published by Kayo Shobo in 1962).

Preface: Book designer Koga Hirano

Title: Old-Style Alphabet Lettering of Japan

This volume is composed of a main section of alphabet and number fonts that were used for both practical and ornamental purposes, and a smaller section underneath on each page of monograms formed from combinations of alphabet letters and numbers in a variety of angles. After World War II, there was a sharp increase in Japan of printed materials, notices, and guide boards and explanation boards written in foreign languages, particularly English, seen everywhere indoors and outdoors, so that foreign languages ​​became a common feature of life for the Japanese. The English letter styles and the marks that accompany them expressed in these various printed materials and are in bold and other types of fonts with well-defined strong form, delicate beauty, lightly rhythmical lines, and dignified formal arrangements appropriate for the main purposes of their texts, pictures, and designs. If these objects were put on exhibit, how they would delight the eye and what quiet enjoyment they would give the heart!

countryoforigin: Japan