1969 Alphabet Yearbook

A few items of note here. I'd never run across these Photo-Lettering Alphabet Yearbooks before. They are a beautiful repository of typefaces and type treatments stemming from the Photo-Lettering Foundry. Give the 1969 edition a browse, it's great.

More on that, House Industries launched a digital version that allows you to try out all the Photo-Lettering faces and even subscribe to them for licensing them in projects. It's a great history lesson and a useful tool.

All that being said, I make the claim that someone should start up the notion of Typography Yearbooks that compile the best type of the year into a physical book. It would blow up like gangbusters on Kickstarter and serve as a great source of inspiration for generations to come, just like these Photo-Lettering books. So, who wants to make it happen?