Whatever the fate of the printed page, letterheads (actual or virtual) will never disappear. What’s more, they will always change. Maybe not as radically as these 1931 examples of before and after, but typographic styles will denote changes in attitudes and technologies.
These were samples from a paper promotion that show how the old-fashioned and the new-fangled differed yet followed the same formal standards.
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