Battle of the business card

American Psycho, ≈18:30:

— Is that a gram?
— New card. What do you think?


— Whoa. Very nice. Look at that.
— Picked them up from the printer’s yesterday.— Good colouring.
— That’s bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Rail.— That’s very cool, Bateman. But that’s nothing. Look at this.

— Raised lettering, pale nimbus. White.

— That is really nice.

— Eggshell with Romalian type. What do you think ?

— Nice.

— Jesus. That is really super. How'da nitwit like you get so tasteful?

— I can't believe that Bryce... prefers Van Patten's card to mine.

— But wait. You ain't seen nothin' yet. Raised lettering, pale nimbus... white.

— Impressive. Very nice.— Mm.
— Let’s see Paul Allen’s card.

— Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God – it even has a watermark.
— Something wrong? Patrick? You’re sweating.

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Times + Baskerville + Holmes

The Derby Mercury newspaper of 1817

But this is my special hobby, and the differences are equally obvious. There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening halfpenny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimaux.

The detection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, 

though I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mercury with the Western Morning News. But a Times leader is entirely distinctive, and these words could have been taken from nothing else. As it was done yesterday the strong probability was that we should find the words in yesterday's issue.

The Hound of the Baskervilles | Chapter IV