Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton, first English edition
Contributed by Nick Sherman on Mar 9th, 2020. Artwork published in
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It looks like the designer was influenced by a layout you see on some posters from the wood-type period where a 'capital letter’ at the start of an all-caps word is indicated with a wider or bolder font. Besides the “mid-word style change” tag I don’t know of a specific name for this. Here it is on another digital-period homage to wood type. (Obviously this is particularly easy to do with wood type sans- and slab-serifs which expanded and condensed nicely and were sold both by size and by width so you could “stat to width”. I don’t think I’ve seen it on posters done, as here, with a totally different font style for the capital letter, but I’m sure there were precedents.)