My new favourite typeface of all time has to be Baskerville Italic, as shown above. Recently, I participated in a psychological profile to find the typeface most suited to me, and Baskerville Italic was the result.
Designed in the late 1700's by John Baskerville and manufactured into metal dies by John Handy, this venerable typeface was regarded by Pierre Simon Forniere, the inventor of the point system for controlling font sizes, as "the best italic to be found in any English foundry". High praise indeed!
I used a bunch of Photoshop blending effects to make the number "50" look snazzy and golden. Shiny!
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