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A brief history of typefaces

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Extra Condensed <strong>typefaces</strong>, first seen in nineteenth-century advertisements, were designed to fit tall letters<br />

in narrow spaces. Such letters were made from wood rather than metal, because lead is too s<strong>of</strong>t to hold up<br />

under the pressure <strong>of</strong> printing large-scale letters.

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