In the late 1970s, Allan Haley wrote a series of brief fact sheets about type designs for Compugraphic Corporation. He entitled these sheets "Familiar Faces" and eventually wrote ten of them. They were assembled into one small, 20-page booklet and distributed to Compugraphic customers.
The "Familiar Faces" booklet is a very useful guide to some of the key features of various faces, and it gives illuminating background information about the provenance and development of some of these faces.
In the early 1980s, Agfa/Monotype acquired Compugraphic Corporation. The "Familiar Faces" booklet was not rerpinted, nor was it converted to digital data.
However, it was expanded into a series of articles he wrote for Step-By-Step Graphics and some of those made it into a book called The ABCs of Type, which according to the author is now out of print.
Allan Haley is presently a creative director at the Agfa/Monotype Corporation.
I have scanned my well-worn copy of "Familiar Faces" and, with the author's gracious permission, published a PDF file of it, which you may download by clicking on the link below.
Please note: This is a 5Mb file. You should be able to download it quickly with a broadband connection, but it will probably take much longer on a telephone modem connection. Users have reported difficulty opening it on-line. I advise downloading the file to your own hard drive and reading it with Acrobat Reader or Acrobat directly from there.
FamiliarFaces.pdf (5.1 Mb.)