Wanted Posters Fonts are Actually Egyptian?

Those “almost square-block serifs hanging for dear life onto needle-thin verticals” on Old West Wanted posters are actually so-called Egyptian fonts created in the early 19th century for large broadsheets posted in public squares, reported [FPO] magazine in Summer 2008. The type style was first commercially introduced by Vincent Figgins, under the name Antique, with copies of specimen dated 1815 and 1817. “Following Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign ... an intense cultural fascination with