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What are you listening to?

... I have not stopped listening too it, I think I'm on the 20th time, not sure. Either way, this is definatly an album to check out. ... that I only ever listen to mediaeval choral and 20th century orchestral music.] Yesterday, James Macmillan's percussion concerto ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments

What to do with my Centaur?

... very close to Adobe Jenson. 5. Go after a different 20th Century metal Jenson revival entirely. I'm intrigued with Mardersteig's Zeno, ...

Forum topic - raph - 18 Jun 2007 - 12:07pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments

Typeface classification

... sans serif typefaces from the turn of the 20th Century: rational, legible forms, low contrast, consistent stroke widths ... art historical classification of type breaks down as the 20th century progresses, and the catch-all 'post-modernist' category is ...

Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Famous Quotes from Type Designers

... any rate to begin with. Typography for the Twentieth-Century Reader Aldous Huxley Type design moves at the pace of ... 1985, as quoted in the introduction to Lewis Blackwell's '20th century type (remix)' Tiffany, where is this Tiffany, where is this ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments

Good light, circular font

... FF Super Grotesk Drescher Grotesk Metro 20th Century Gotham Proxima Sans Mostra Relay I hope ...

Forum topic - robsayshowdy - 22 Apr 2004 - 2:04pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

20 most important type designers of all time

... to see Zapf on the list. Getting more into the 21st century, a few that come to mind are Carol Twombly and Ray Larabie. How are ... was one of the most popular and influential faces of the 20th C. and he has the distinction of having been persecuted by the Nazi's for ...

Forum topic - Brown Fox - 8 Jan 2007 - 10:25am - 72 comments - 0 attachments

111 years later, Akzidenz in Greek & Cyrillic

... by the St Petersburg branch of H Berthold AG in the early 20th century. Most certainly, the Cyrillic part does not come "111 years ...

Forum topic - spyros - 3 Apr 2007 - 2:10pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

Geometrics used in type design

... fonts, although that also makes one think of the 20th century "Soviet-style" stuff, or the cut&paste fad of the 90s. But ...

Forum topic - pbarney - 14 Sep 2004 - 9:31am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Baskerville

... designed by John Baskerville in England in the mid-18th century, revived in the early 20th century and widely used for books and other long texts. Many versions are ...

Wiki - pstanley - 16 Feb 2011 - 3:31am - 0 comments

Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces

... supression of blackletter, amoung other things, in late 20th C design, I think that responding to this by turning around and trying to ... more than anything else. My knowledge of 17th-to-19th-century European history is too spotty to speculate accurately, but I think ...

Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments