How many fonts?

[benwiggy]

This score's frontispiece is typical of fin-de-siècle type design, where "more is more", as far as type styles is concerned.

A far cry from the usual design maxim of keeping type styles to a minimum (and 'don't underline').

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[JoshNichols]

Reminds me of this, though I reconciled this by "playing" with Minion to achieve the effect, without the fuss of possibly several different fonts:

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My version:

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[John Ruggero]

I prefer yours, Josh. Very nice. Here are couple of pages of interest. I stopped counting fonts when I got to 10:

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[JoshNichols]

Oh my WORD. That looks horrendous. It feels aesthetically hairy.