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First Printer brings nostalgia to Harvard Square

Comfort food that plays to type

By Devra First

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 02, 2012

The logo is a line drawing of a printing press. For decoration, there are vintage type trays and framed newspaper pages. Harvard Square restaurant First Printer, in the former Herrell’s Ice Cream space, has a theme. Yet the menu itself pays little attention to typeface, dishes described in a meat-and-potatoes font under headings such as “advance copy,” “first edition” and “second run.” A restaurant’s true heart can be glimpsed in the font used on its menu.

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