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Johnston I have lost confidence. Despite all he did for us...he has undone too much by forsaking his standard of the Roman alphabet, giving the world, without safeguard or explanation, his block letters which disfigure our modern life. His prestige has obscured their vulgarity and
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had settled in 1907. His wife died in 1936. He was appointed a CBE in 1939. He died at home in
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commissioned him to design a typeface for London
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846:"In Defence of the Roman Letter"
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