Packard (font)

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Spanish advertisement for the Packard Single Six, set in Packard type

Packard and Packard Bold are two fonts designed by Oswald Cooper . They were specially developed for the US automobile manufacturer Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit , Michigan .

Packard and Packard Bold were used in the company's publications and in-house newspaper The Packard .

Origin and application

Oswald Cooper developed the two fonts in 1913. It was used for an undisclosed period in the Packard Motor Car Company's publications, in the Packard's in-house newspaper, and later in the Packard Automobile Classics ' organ , The Packard Cormorant . The latter is the only known current use.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes (Ed.): Packard, a history of the motor car and the company. Princeton Publ., Princeton, NJ 1978, ISBN 0-915038-11-0 , p. 121.

See also

  • DIN 16518 German industrial standard for the classification system for fonts used in Germany.

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