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- The MODERN BLACKLETTER
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... Blackletter:Type and National Identity and Paul Renner's book have been a great kick start for my research. They are full of good ... you make stronger links between blackletter and Sans or Antiqua forms. See the Renner biography by Burke, and also Renner's own book, ...
Forum topic - Hannah - 26 May 2006 - 9:52pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments
- Famous Quotes from Type Designers
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... , but without luck I try to do it myself (from the Swedsih book I have)... "The letters don't get their true delight, when done in ... l e t t e r s p a c e d. In a later edition, typeset in antiqua (roman) type, the typesetters interpreted the letterspaced blackletter ...
Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- Not Obeying the 'Times' Requirement
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... typeset LOL - I once had to typeset the interior of a book for a publishing house - they LOVED Times Roman and didn't want to use it. ... if they ask for TNR and get Garamond, or Palatino/Bookman Antiqua, or Georgia. (This may be a holdover from the early days of desktop ...
Forum topic - copperfont - 3 Mar 2007 - 7:09pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments
- Top 10 typefaces
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... FTN Farao (Peter, I owe you a copy of that book) Clarendon -- K. A prosaic list -- Times New Roman Times Roman Extrabold Book Antiqua or Palatino Adobe Garamond Bauer Bodoni Bauer Bodoni Titling ...
Forum topic - elastik - 12 Apr 2004 - 11:52am - 66 comments - 0 attachments
- Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces
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... If you read the rest of Bain & Shaw's book, you will see that today blackletter is mostly associated with ... any understanding or interest in the blackletter vs. antiqua debate of what was, for them, a foreign script. This is one of the ... be widespread irritation if it were used as body text in a book... the usual "man kann das nicht lesen." And Hrant, I'm ...
Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments
- g's anyone?
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... used for eyeglasses.. been a while and I don't have the book in front of me. Rian Hughes has used it a Rian Hughes has used it ... what is otherwise a regimented and conformist idea---the antiqua lower case. The justification for it is like the D in Bank Gothic---it ...
Forum topic - londontype - 31 Jan 2006 - 1:21pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments
- Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing
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... This is really an incredible resource; if it were a book I would have likely purchased it. Futura's "clearly discernable ... would be sort of ironic to set the whole thing in Renner Antiqua ;-) Futura is a legible face, at least the metal version popular in ...
Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments
- Matching Sans & Serif faces for a magazine
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... & TheSerif while the other used Adobe's Celestia Antiqua & Scala Sans. I find FF Thesis a pain in the butt to work with ... I vaguely remember that it was in an Allan Haley book - not sure. (Get well soon!) hhp Tiff -- ...
Forum topic - seanglenn - 21 Nov 2003 - 2:18pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments
- versions of Zapf's Renaissance Antiqua
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... enquiry. There are two versions of Zapf's "Renaissance Antiqua" available: one from the company which produced it originally, ... Format OpenType Name ZapfRenaissaBEFOP-Book Version OTF 2.001;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.29 Family ZapfRenaissaBEFOP-Book Sub Family Regular PS Name ZapfRenaissaBEFOP-Book Filename ...
Forum topic - Gareth Colgan - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:29pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- (x) Magnificat - Gamme (lookalike) {Mike Freiman}
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... doing to people. Microsoft's response to the Book Antiqua problem is a good example of this. Does Mr. Peter get royalties ...
Forum topic - jonathanlawley - 29 Aug 2007 - 8:02pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments
