Early 20th Century Posters: Typography!

I've decided to create my poster in the Sci-Fi, early 20th century style, so I've been looking into the typography used on these posters.

Generally bold, sans serif fonts are used throughout. They are neither fancy nor hard to read and can be easily and evenly aligned in different ways - e.g. in a shape, justified alignment, diagonally, one word on top of another.

Typical fonts of the 20th Century Sci Fi poster style:

All are obviously very bold and would work well for a title/tagline on a poster.

Research: Steampunk Text!

When I was researching Steampunk, very few of the images that showed up in my search had text featuring on them. If I'm going to create a poster that tries to recruit people to join something, there's quite a high chance it's going to need to feature some text, so I did some research on Steampunk text/fonts. This is what I found:

Like the Steampunk images I found, there seems to be varying degrees of the style. Number 2 features less mechanical imagery than say, number 4 or 3, but all fit within the Steampunk genre. Image number one has a lot of imagery that you'd find in an industrial setting, but then also has a Victorian hat sat on top of  one of the letters.

These fonts seem like they'd be difficult to read if they were used in a long sentence, and would be better used as titles. Here are other fonts I found that could be better for longer stretches of text.

Main things I noticed:

• Using a combination of images to build the shape of a letter
• Victorian style text that features industrial colours (greys, blacks, golds) and patterns (coils, cogs, steam)
• Slight use of Serifs with references the Victorian influence, but not always necessary (particularly in the more complex "title" style fonts I initially looked at)
• Varying degrees of complexity