#BrushScript

2025-05-19

Specimen for Brush, (Typeface by Robert E. Smith), Lanston Monotype Machine Company, Philadelphia, 1942.

More commonly known as Brush Script in its digital version, (and often maligned due to misuse and overuse), Brush is one of the more successful examples of mid-20th-century script lettering translated to metal type.

#Typeface #Font #TypeSpecimen #BrushScript #Typography

Cover of a leaflet, blue background with an illustration of a paintbrush “painting” white, with a black “Brush” where the paint is applied. Above is “Monotype
Series, No. 302”, and below is “Lanston Monotype Machine Company
Twenty-fourth and Locust Streets, Philadelphia 3, Penna.”Interior spread of leaflet showing 9 framed examples of Brush in use, mostly for advertisements.Back side of leaflet showing character set and waterfall samples of the typeface.

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