Typophile - Tippecanoe - Comments

even better!

sii — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:16:55 -0700

even better!

:^/ I meant, it wouldn’t

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:08:35 -0700

:^/ I meant, it wouldn’t surprise me. Sorry.

Thanks Tiffany, I can sleep

sii — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:07:31 -0700

Thanks Tiffany, I can sleep easily at night now. ;-)

Thanks very much.

Alessandro Segalini — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:51:21 -0700

Thanks very much.

Simon, it would surprise me

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:03:39 -0700

Simon, it would surprise me if the name was derived from the Battle of Tippecanoe.

I can’t find anything on

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:51:35 -0700

I can’t find anything on the name ... yet. The problem with finding too much info on this subject is that I didn’t focus on this typeface in my dissertation. I do believe I have more information, it is just a matter of finding it.

From the notes I have here, it began as #268 on/around March 18, 1942 and ended as #283 on July 18, 1945. The fact that there was any sort of type design happening during the war is amazing to me anyway. But, I think Linotype might have been looking toward the future.

In the notes I have C.H. Griffith seems positive about the type as it is being developed. The drawings were returned to Dwiggins with a letter dated October 11, 1945 by Helen Jagau, C.H. Griffith’s assistant. Note these were the A-Z cap italic drawings. I need to find my proof notes. I don’t recall if this was completed or not. She states with these drawings and #269 (Eldorado), “Mr. Griffith suggests that you put these away pending such time as we are able to proceed with the cutting of the experimental characters.”

In a letter written sometime in 1942, Dwiggins refers to it as “268 Didot-Bodoni, 9 pt.” So even at this time the name had yet to be given. Further on in the letter he states, “A new statement on the theme, but no soap yet.” They were still working on it and he had yet to see it take full form.

I believe I have a folder with information from Dwiggins archives at Kentucky in my notebooks at home. Mi dispiace. I’m sorry that I haven’t gotten to this yet for you.

Dear Tiffany, do you have a

Alessandro Segalini — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:44:56 -0700

Dear Tiffany, do you have a more precise bibliographic reference for your interesting yet somehow amazing notes ?

Is the name truly related to Tippecanoe country in Indiana USA, as Simon Daniels assumed ?

Thanks very much.

Grazie, Alessandro.

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:50:31 -0700

Grazie, Alessandro.

Okay Tiffany, it will be on

Alessandro Segalini — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:52:56 -0700

Okay Tiffany, it will be on this magazine, no. 8: http://www.aiap.it/progettografico.php

Tiffany, those

enne_son — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:44:13 -0700

Tiffany, those transcriptions are spectacular. I especially like the stuff about the ’steel pen action’ in relation to ’ruled lines and compass curves’. (Nick, remember our interchange about the ’scheme’ for Bodoni?)

Why isn’t there a ’collected writings’ (or is there)?

Why did the project stall?
Are there drawings to accompany the argument?

Si — I believe that I have

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:43:53 -0700

Si — I believe that I have that information at home with my other notes. I’ll dig that out just for you. :^)

Alessandro — ...and you’ll send a copy to me?

Thank you very much, I will

Alessandro Segalini — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:50:17 -0700

Thank you very much, I will read your line through later. I am co-writing an article title “Bodoni’s Typographical Heritage” and we are sorting out different existing cuts.

So what’s the official

sii — Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:30:28 -0700

So what’s the official story on the name? I assume it’s related to Tippecanoe county Indiana?

AHAHA!

Miss Tiffany — Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:03:57 -0700

AHAHA!

sii — Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:59:10 -0700

http://www.tahoecountry.com/macrae/8.gif - look closely at this photo and you can clearly see Matthew Carter, WAD and Robert Norton in the canoe in the foreground on Lake Tahoe. Taken in 1912 I believe this gathering was where both the font names Tippecanoe and Tahoma came from.

More on the resort... http://www.tahoecountry.com/oldtimetahoe/images/tahomaresort.jpg ... where you can see that the design of Tahoma was influenced by the signage.

Tippecanoe

Alessandro Segalini — Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:46:16 -0700

Hello, I am looking for an enlightenment on W.A. Dwiggins’ “Tippecanoe”,
Best regards.