Originally made in wood by William H. Page in c. 1856.
[Lettera 3] A redesigned and completed version by
Armin Haab and Walter Haettenschweiler is shown in
Lettera 3 (Jan. 1968). The version
reproduced in Phil’s Photo catalog (alongside an outlined and
shaded version) appears to be identical to the Lettera
version. So is Photoscript’s Smoke (1968, used for
sample) and Lettergraphics’ Eros.
PLINC’s version is slightly different in some details. It first
appears in Psychedelitypes (1968) as
Psychedelitype 4518. Shown in the One
Line catalog as Smoke, alongside an all-caps
version with a slightly different angle named Baghdad
Backslant. Latter More…
Originally made in wood by William H. Page in c. 1856. [Lettera 3] A redesigned and completed version by Armin Haab and Walter Haettenschweiler is shown in Lettera 3 (Jan. 1968). The version reproduced in Phil’s Photo catalog (alongside an outlined and shaded version) appears to be identical to the Lettera version. So is Photoscript’s Smoke (1968, used for sample) and Lettergraphics’ Eros.
PLINC’s version is slightly different in some details. It first appears in Psychedelitypes (1968) as Psychedelitype 4518. Shown in the One Line catalog as Smoke, alongside an all-caps version with a slightly different angle named Baghdad Backslant. Latter is also included in Alphabet Thesaurus, Vol. 3.
Digitizations include OPTI Smoke (Castcraft, 1990–91) and the amateur freebie Psychedelic Smoke (Walter Kafton-Minkel, 1990–91). There is also an uncredited digitization of the shaded version (1994).
