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== Background ==
== Background ==
Trim was started by [[Randolph Benson]], one of the two founders of [[Grecian Guild Pictorial]]. By 1960, Benson had sold Trim, and later Grecian Guild Pictorial, to  [[H. Lynn Womack]]. Like Womack's other acquisitions — [[Fizeek]], [[Grecian Guild Pictorial]], [[MANual]] — all of Womack's titles could be contacted through postal address boxes at Benjamin Franklin Station Washington, D.C. They shared similar graphic treatments and date annotation on their covers.
Trim was started by [[Randolph Benson]], one of the two founders of [[Grecian Guild Pictorial]]. (The other was [[John Bullock]].) By 1960, Benson had sold Trim, and later Grecian Guild Pictorial, to  [[H. Lynn Womack]]. All of Womack's titles could be contacted through postal address boxes at Benjamin Franklin Station Washington, D.C. They shared similar graphic treatments and date annotation on their covers.


== Typography ==
== Typography ==

Revision as of 10:24, 1 October 2020

[Return to Periodicals]

Background

Trim was started by Randolph Benson, one of the two founders of Grecian Guild Pictorial. (The other was John Bullock.) By 1960, Benson had sold Trim, and later Grecian Guild Pictorial, to H. Lynn Womack. All of Womack's titles could be contacted through postal address boxes at Benjamin Franklin Station Washington, D.C. They shared similar graphic treatments and date annotation on their covers.

Typography

Cover typefaces

Interior typefaces

Collected issues

Trim Publishing Co.

  1. Trim, vol. 1 no. 2 (May 1957)
  2. Trim, vol. 1 no. 3 (August 1957)
  3. Trim, vol. 1 no. 5 (December 1957)

Trim Enterprises

  1. Trim 35 (December 1963)
  2. Trim 36 (February 1964)
  3. Trim 38 (August 1964)
  4. Trim 51 (August 1966)