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- What are your pet peeves about common typefaces?
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... when used with old-style numerals. (In Adobe Caslon, even the hyphen, the en dash, and the em dash look too high to me.) ... R either. It's a dealbreaker for me in that font. Caslon's italic is a bit too slanty and skinny for me, not readable. I ... of heavy display typefaces, like City, Gill Sans Kayo, Antique Olive Nord or Odin: It’s always the same principle. ...
Forum topic - mwebert - 6 Sep 2006 - 3:11pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments
- Egyptian slab serif
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... "The first square-serif type to be introduced was the Antique of London's Vincent Figgins Foundry, turning up in the 1817 catalogue ... century. The first sans serif type was published in a Caslon specimen of 1816 (there are no extant examples of it in use), and named ...
Forum topic - missgiggles - 22 Dec 2006 - 11:13am - 56 comments - 0 attachments
- The Best Hundred
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... • Hands • Metro • Didot • Formata • Caslon • Cooper Black • Peignot • Bell Gothic • Antique Olive • Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch • Info • Dax ...
Forum topic - satya - 4 Feb 2007 - 1:10am - 44 comments - 0 attachments
- Caslon Old Face
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... thread written by Justin Howe's about the release of his Caslon Old Face ... find, including 8 and 10 point, etc. ITC's Founder's Caslon, however, only has calson digital fonts based on the original 12 point, ... But then the result is going to look extremely 'antique', and not acceptable for most modern uses. So my personal ...
Forum topic - katzenjammer - 28 Jan 2007 - 3:04pm - 24 comments - 0 attachments
- Typography on the cigarette boxes
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... with suede elbow patches, smoking a pipe, and driving an antique Jaguar SS100. As he told the story, Marlboro had originally been ... their bidding. The typeface Carl originally used was Caslon Antique, which I don't think is in the example here. What there is in ...
Forum topic - satya - 18 Nov 2007 - 12:27pm - 22 comments - 0 attachments
- (x) Cooper Looser - Midas {Mark S}
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... a copy of the 1844 I have a copy of the 1844 revival of Caslon, 'Lady Willoughby's Diary'. It was not only celebrated at the time, and ... they refer to the "style of printing" being suited to the antique setting, I am guessing that the paper might have been dampened before ...
Forum topic - hrant - 13 Jun 2007 - 7:15am - 64 comments - 0 attachments
- Date of original production of Bruce Oldstyle?
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... here is some guesswork about Bruce Old style. Caslon--the original type it seems--was revived in the 1844 printing of 'Lady ... come from versions by the Bruce foundry, originally called Antique 310. ATF added the famous swash characters, which were drawn by ...
Forum topic - Tim Brown - 13 Feb 2007 - 1:36pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Art Book cover, and fonts
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... appropriate for the period, and find Centaur way too antique looking (altho it does have an expert set). Whitman is lovely. Not ... I also have Adobe Jensen Pro, Adobe Garmond Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, all open type, all fonts I didn't buy (altho I do have the ...
Forum topic - martay - 16 Feb 2007 - 8:52am - 26 comments - 1 attachment
- Letters we Love
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... for this topic, pattyfab suggested the ampersand of Caslon Italic. Quite fab indeed, Patty. Clarendon “a” über ... I couldn't agree more ;-) ChrisL ‘C’ of antique olive 'C' of antique olive nord: now that's a real ...
Forum topic - pdxuser - 15 Jan 2007 - 11:48am - 51 comments - 0 attachments
- How should "sans" be pronounced?
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... Figgins. He also says that the French tended to call 'antique', as in 'Antique Olive', what the English call 'sanserif'. Since ... things back to To bring things back to type, William Caslon junior (the Caslon who cast the ‘Egyptian’ type) advertised ...
Forum topic - elliot100 - 23 Jan 2007 - 4:05am - 46 comments - 0 attachments
