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The Cyclop typeface was designed in the 1920s at the workshop
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of Warsaw type foundry "Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka".
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This sans serif typeface has a highly modulated stroke so it
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has high typographic contrast. The vertical stems are much
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heavier then horizontal ones. Most characters have thin
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rectangles as additional counters giving the unique shape of
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the characters. The lead types of Cyclop typeface were produced
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in slanted variant at sizes 8-48 pt. It was heavily used for
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heads in newspapers and accidents prints. Typesetters used
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Cyclop in the inter-war period, during the occupation in the
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underground press. The typeface was used until the beginnings
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of the offset print and computer typesetting era. Nowadays it
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is hard to find the metal types of this typeface.
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