T206 Font/Type Question

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Posted By: davidcycleback

For many cards like this, the bottom text is often done from its own plate, sometimes simultaneously with a black border design. Even the black in the player image is done separately. I've seen old and modern color separation proof sets that showed this. Color separations show all the color combinations, and you see a point where it has all the colors except the black text, and a point where you see all the black printing but without the text-- showing the text was printed separately. The color separations don't show order of colors, but it's standard to print the light colors first and darkest last. No matter what the order, it would have been easy enough for the T206 printer to change the front text without changing anything else.