Typography samples of a phonetic alphabet, spelling various words using some special characters. Three sheets of white paper with two columns of black printed sans serif text and small red handwritten numbers are cut and adhered to white cardstock. Two words in the middle of the right column ('sERtAinly' and 'idEntikl') are cut from beige paper, with yellowy residue surrounding the area. 'SERTnLY' is pencilled below this patch. Handwritten in the top left corner is 'FOR REFERENCE ONLY', underlined twice. The special characters are like altered letters: an upside-down v, an upside-down u, a downturned E, a smushed w, an upturned c, an angular d, with or without a dash in the enclosed space, a ligatured i n, an open q, curvy or angular, with a short vertical line at the top, an h, stem crossed with a short horizontal stroke, an angular s, an upside-down u with a long, curved right end, with or without a dot at top left, a diamond shape with a vertical or diagonal line at bottom corner.

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1959	Work on this object began.
2016	We acquired this object.
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Print, Fonetik Alphabet Sample

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1959 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is prints on pieces of white and tan paper, adhered to white paper, with pen and red ink and graphite, mounted on white cardstock. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Alphabet Card
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
a-d-285-l

Sample, Alphabet
cotton.
Gift of Alexander H. Girard.
1969-165-164

Poster, Comparative Anatomy of FHWA Series E-modified to Clearview 5-W

Poster, Comparative Anatomy of FHWA Series E-modified to Clearview 5-W
color inkjet print with epson ultrachromek3 ink on epson proofing paper....
Gift of Donald Meeker, Meeker & Associates, Inc., and James Montalbano,....
2011-24-1

Its dimensions are

21.6 × 25.7 cm (8 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and red ink, upper left corner: FOR REFERENCE ONLY [underlined twice]; in graphite, center right: SERTnLY

Cite this object as

Print, Fonetik Alphabet Sample; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); prints on pieces of white and tan paper, adhered to white paper, with pen and red ink and graphite, mounted on white cardstock; 21.6 × 25.7 cm (8 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-424

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2FYuWK/
Accession Number 2016-54-424
Object ID 1108723751