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- What are you listening to?
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If you like the Strokes , you'll like The White Stripes even more. Happy and delicious. ... heard in a long time. And her voice is amazing. Evolution of the Trumpet by Evolution of the Trumpet by Arturo Sandoval (the ...
Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments
- Famous Quotes from Type Designers
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... why, it is a surprise. However, we could also put these in the wiki. I'll start: "Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would ... Designer's Type Book, says "Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human ...
Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- Books
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... Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works ... -Firmage, Richard A., David R. Godine, Alphabet: The history, evolution & design of the letters we use today ...
Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... revival of Griffo's last roman in its 1499 state - the font, in adulterated form, of the Hypnerotomachia - and his 1503 italic for ... different after 500 years of printing technology evolution! I'm not sure which one to prefer, but I think at larger sizes ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- Carol Twombly.. Please help me!
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I have spent the past 3 weeks trying to obtain every piece of information about Carol ... with intemediate masters (like Kepler MM), but during the evolution of the design, Robert split it into separate MMs. Now, each MM is ... circumstances? It all blends into the dark strands of history, and we have no control. This BTW is something the West has great ...
Forum topic - softbluecries1 - 30 Mar 2007 - 8:13am - 244 comments - 0 attachments
- Trapping
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... UNITIZING) for Lino, unitizing for Mono. So he made the choice to make the two 'a's fit the 9 units (which yields a ... to funny to most, but they were the result of a logical evolution from hand-setting to machine setting from recirculated cold types ...
Forum topic - gerald_giampa - 27 Aug 2003 - 6:03am - 101 comments - 0 attachments
- why is serif still used today?
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... them alive and for what purpose? “Some claim that the "Some claim that the serifs help draw the reader’s eye across a line ... which you seem so eager to consign to the dust heap of history, I'd also like to recommend you acquaint yourself with another archaic ...
Forum topic - missgiggles - 1 Dec 2006 - 6:36am - 117 comments - 0 attachments
- Agamemnon 27! Now with Greek, Cyrillic, and Cherokee
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edit: For those of you joining the thread in progress, the most recent PDF files are at the bottom of the list ... wonky. -Why are some serifs flat, and others curved? -'&' looks like an '8' -I dig the ball terminal on the '4' and some other ... like U compared to V. I've drawn up a conjectural evolution of the gamma and nu. I think the nu evolved along a similar path to ...
Forum topic - cuttlefish - 23 Nov 2007 - 5:34pm - 188 comments - 32 attachments
- Typophile Books: Type Design History
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... excellent book. While it is not a comprehensive reference, the visual samples are generous and well paced. The historical commentary is ... review! Alphabet: The History, Evolution, and Design of the Letters We Use Today ...
Page - Miss Tiffany - 24 Aug 2007 - 3:18pm - 0 comments
- Experimental type info
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... Brandon...From what I've seen and heard, the word 'experimental', as it applies to type, bugs a lot of people ... Post 1: humanities and social sciences (history, art history, philosophy, archaeology, theology, sociology, psychology, ...
Forum topic - hodge - 9 Oct 2003 - 9:02am - 64 comments - 0 attachments
