Fists

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Fists Ornamental fists throughout history, as described by Paul McPharlin (1903-1948) in "Roman Numerals Typographic Leaves and Pointing Hands" (1942, The Typophiles, New York). Rycharde Kele (1545), publisher of John Skelton's "Colyn Cloute". Sixteenth-century fists were mostly outlined hands. See also Berner's specimen sheet (1592). The earlist fists in type specimen sheets are by Conrad Berner (1592), who showed them alongside Garamond's types. See here. See here for fists by Briquet (Paris, 1757), and Mein&Fleeming (Boston, 1760). From McPharlin: "The use of a fist pointing out a line at the end of a message, to give it parting punch, became commonplace in the job printer's formulae of 1840-1870 in America." Example of fists by Joseph Crawhall (1883) in a music book. See also here. Crawhall awakened many to the charm of chapbook cuts. In the 1890's, Will Bradley designed a set of fists in chapbook style, which were to be found at ATF. Fred G. Cooper used many fists to accompany his hand-lettering. Bruce Rogers used many fists in the 1933 Oxford University Press edition of Fables of Aesop. See also here.	EXTERNAL LINKS MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Dingbats (original) ⦿ Fists, pointing hands ⦿ History of type ⦿