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Sports Illustrated (September 20, 1965)

In spite of the vast number of faces available, advertisers in this popular men’s magazine rely on relatively few types. In a man’s magazine, the advertisers favored roman types over sans-serifs in both display and text composition. For display, out of 59 full-page ads, 14 romans were called upon in 32 advertisements, with 9 sans-serifs […]