“I’m Glad I Had Leprosy”

Published December 26, 2025
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“I’m Glad I Had Leprosy” and other evangelistic illustrations for sermons and programs, arranged by Mamie Gene Cole Husk, Southeastern Secretary

American Mission to Lepers Incorporated, ca. 1950.

The title combines two typefaces designed by Robert Hunter Middleton for Ludlow in the 1930s: the low-contrast script Mandate and Tempo Bold with its characteristic two-story a. All smaller text is set in several styles from Vogue, Intertype’s geometric sans.



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