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I came upon this cover advertisement for the Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) for September 1919 and was excited by this typeface–especially the fantastic “f”. The ad was for the German film production company UFA (Universum Film AG, today known as UFA GmbH) which was started a little less than two years earlier. There’s not much I want to say about the company–I really just wanted to share the typography.
