This item at Substack shows some actual prescriptions for liquor written during Prohibition. It was a nice loophole for wealthier drinkers and a nice source of legal profit for distilleries and doctors.
The printed forms were set in Record Gothic, still used for official forms in the 70s when I worked in hot lead. For my tech history pieces on printing I tried to find Record Gothic online. Oddly for such an important font, it’s not in the free font stores. It’s available with an expensive license, but I didn’t feel like spending money on a nearly invisible part of a non-work project.
I had to approximate Record Gothic for this Ludlow typecase. Not a close equivalent!
So: Record Gothic was a font for prescriptions, and now it’s a font by prescription.
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