CBCP Fellow Helena de Barros has designed a typeface, ‘Chromiste’, based on the collection of chromo-lithographed Liebig trade cards held in the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collection, that she studied during her time at Reading.
Fig 1: An example of the Liebig trade cards that informed Helena’s work on chromolithographic techniques in the Michael Twyman Collection. To see examples of these trade cards contact LPGDC@reading.ac.uk.