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Vox ATypI classification in English
Posted by Wouter Spaak in
24 Oct 2006 — 9:49am
24 Oct 2006 — 9:49am
Dear Typophiles,
as a type amateur and enthusiast, I've always been very interested in the history of type. Recently, after a lot of browsing on this site, I found numerous references to a certain 'Vox ATypI' classification of typefaces, and that sparked my interest. After a long search on the internet all I could find were pages in French regarding this classification, and my French isn't quite up to par, so I wasn't able to read those pages.
My question to you is if anyone knows a site in English (or Dutch) that explains the Vox ATypI classification, or can someone maybe post a short summary in English about the classification?
Thank you kindly,
Wouter Spaak
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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24 Oct 2006 — 10:18am
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.imprimeri...
http://stbride.org/friends/conference/twentiethcenturygraphiccommunicati...
Google translation seems to work quite well for most of this (admittedly basic), hope it helps.
Tim
24 Oct 2006 — 10:24am
If you look at the wikipedia page about the Vox-ATypI classification you should be able to see the similarities of the words. Even for someone such as myself, who doesn't speak French, the words are familiar.
24 Oct 2006 — 2:23pm
Thank you both very kindly, the Google translation thingy actually worked a lot better than I'd hoped. The last time I used an online translater was years ago in the days of Altavista Babelfish, and that was usually rubbish.
Thank you Miss Tiffany for the French Wikipedia entry, with a big dictionary and some imagination it proved very useful as well.
14 Dec 2006 — 6:52pm
i've attempted to translate the french version, and the result is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOX-ATypI_classification. i'm still working on it so, give it a few hours. Also, if i've made any gross errors, please feel free to correct them.