Festival of Britain

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This 16 page guide, designed by the London Press Exchange, features the Festival Star motif by Abram Games.

Festival Titlingwas designed by Phillip Boydell and cut by Monotype in 1950 as the official display face for the Festival of Britain, a national exhibition held throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. The typeface was used for all official Festival announcements and was made available for general use in 1952.

A shadowed fat face (or lettering?) usually accompanied the Festival logo, representing the year. I don't know it, but Ingeborg Block, an unrelated contemporary typeface, is similar.

The Festival of Britain was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts.

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This pamplet uses an inline version of Festival Titling.

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