File talk:Britain declares war--Daily Mail Aug 5, 1914.jpg

Not the original

The history of fonts is something I'm interested in and I'm completely certain that this is a remake using 1980s or 1990s desktop publishing. British newspapers normally didn't use big headlines at this time, ads went on the front cover. The "Wednesday, August 5" section is Times New Roman, which didn't exist until 1932. "Daily net sale" is artificially sloped text, which wasn't normal until phototypesetting and desktop publishing let you slope a font automatically in the 1970s and 1980s. The text "the following announcement" is in a monoline humanist sans-serif (can't recognise the specific one), a style that didn't really get popularised until the 1980s. My guess is that this is a remake made for some book with a title like "The Daily Mail Through History" in the 1980s or 1990s where because it wasn't practical to reprint the original newspaper size which would have been a large paper format they retyped it. I am going to try to get in touch with someone with access to the Daily Mail's archive who can confirm this, though. Blythwood (talk) 22:51, 14 October 2024 (UTC)