Before there was Typekit, before there was Fonts.com, DaFont or Google Fonts, designers had to share their typefaces the old-fashioned way—via print advertisements. In Print magazine’s 75 years of publishing, we’ve seen some great adverts, some funny, some dry and some, well, strange. In honor of the 2015 Typography and Lettering Awards, we dug deep into the archives to find our favorite type-vertisements. Some you might recognize, others, not so much.

Check out these vintage font ads from decades past, and don’t forget today is the last day to enter the Print 2015 Typography and Lettering Awards and get early-bird rates!

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All too often, typeface designs, typographic designs and handlettering get overlooked in competitions—which is why Print developed a competition that gives the artforms their full due and recognizes the best designers in each category. Enter Print’s Typography & Lettering Awards today.

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