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Tag: Santayana

On printer’s blocks, bigotry and these modern times

August 14, 2016March 4, 2024 CrankyAdminLetterpress Projects

Hidden at the back of a dusty type case at the Cranky Press lies a scrap of typographic history that no one wants to remember.  There are about a dozen of these blocks: bizarre, offensive renditions of […]

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