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- HTF Didot vs. Linotype Didot
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... project setting French poetry from the turn of the 19th century. I've narrowed my wish list down to either Linotype Didot ... time of the Didot and other romantic types of the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Margaret M. Smith wrote an excellent essay ...
Forum topic - Mark Foster - 6 Apr 2005 - 1:05pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments
- Caslon Egyptian
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... relatively easy to derive a grotesque sans from the early 18th century modern serifed style, and it would work well with such type. (BTW, ...
Forum topic - mncz - 26 Jan 2005 - 7:05am - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... dynamic and contextual to boot; there's no way a 21st century Armo is going to get inside an 18th century Brit's head (at least not enough to make type like him). I ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)
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... trait of German typeface brochures from the early 20th century. The Ruhard'sche/Klingspor specimen book for Eckmann, which was printed ... as the typeface remains too influenced by the late 18th century transitionals so admired by Updike, whose influence on Dwiggins ...
Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments
- Most recent issue of CA
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... I may know poverty as we had in Italy in the early 20th century (part of my grandfathers were farmers and very poor) but I barely know ... debased and corrupt pseudo-democracy, designed by 18th century oligarchs to maintain power in the hands of their class, but this ...
Forum topic - Eric_West - 30 May 2006 - 8:13pm - 512 comments - 0 attachments
- Zhe on drugs?
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... In Russian, the short ascender was more common in the 18th century. I rarely see it today. I was thinking about your zhe a bit more. ...
Forum topic - hrant - 25 May 2007 - 7:53am - 50 comments - 0 attachments
- Greek scripts
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... examples of fine penmanship from earlier in the 20th century. It is not possible to map It is not possible to map Latin hand ... were kept tight and "professional" -- in the same way that 18th century Roman scripts still have typographic currency. However, for ...
Forum topic - paul d hunt - 10 Apr 2007 - 5:59am - 21 comments - 0 attachments
- Egyptian slab serif
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Did the Egyptian slab serif in the late 19th century take inspiration after the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb by Howard ... masons. Tombstones are another, clearly dated, source of 18th century sans lettering. “Caslon’s "Caslon’s “Egyptian”, ...
Forum topic - missgiggles - 22 Dec 2006 - 11:13am - 56 comments - 0 attachments
- Barry Lyndon Movieposter font
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... not sure why Kubrick chose it for a movie set in the 18th century. It evokes the 1970s more than anything else. (In spite of the ...
Forum topic - user - 6 Apr 2004 - 2:33am - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- Yves reviews Fleischmann revivals
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... done... if he were a well-meaning zombie haunting the 21st century. hhp — Would that people would -- Would that people ... is preserved, so what was gloriously idiosyncratic in the 18th century becomes affectation. I like true idiosyncrasy in type design. ...
Forum topic - William Berkson - 28 Jun 2005 - 4:07pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments
