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For a while, I've been interested in a certain style of typography and would like to find out where I can learn more about it.

Unfortunately, I've no real idea how to describe it, but I'll do my best:

It's a very ornate style with lots of highly embellished letterforms in many sizes, often on curving baselines and typically featuring enlarged, filigree initial capitals. It's used a lot on material featuring 60s/70s "jam" bands like the Grateful Dead and it has a classic, American look to it. It looks quite distinct from the psychedelic era type and seems more finely "crafted". It looks influenced by early 20th century posters and advertising although the style is probably older.

My goal would be to be able to reproduce something with this feel but realise that it is not as simple as using certain fonts! To do it properly would take a lifetime to master!

There are some pointers to recreating traditional type effects in Illustrator in Leslie Cabarga's excellent "Logo Font and Lettering Bible" but I was wondering of anyone knows of any similar resources?

Here's a quick "mood board" showing examples of the kind of thing I mean: