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- The Sloped Roman
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... and by Dreyfus, and they are just gorgeous. The original foundry metal has great optical sizing, done by the punch cutter. Frank ... long passages without fatigue -- unlike, say, Janson or Caslon Old Face which seem best at providing short blasts of alternative voice. ...
Forum topic - canus - 9 Dec 2006 - 9:11am - 19 comments - 0 attachments
- What to do with my Centaur?
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... scale. My feeling was that Monotype Imaging , the foundry with clear lineage from the Monotype that did the first wide ... since it needs so much less leading than, say, Adobe Caslon that one can reasonably expect it to be used at greater than normal ...
Forum topic - raph - 18 Jun 2007 - 12:07pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments
- Typeface classification
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... answer. 1. By designer 2. By typeface name 3. By foundry 4. By date 5, By medium (eg digital/photo/metal/etc.) 6. ... will be much inferior. Aesthetically, such faces as Caslon and Zapfino will give very different impressions. No doubt it is ...
Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments
- Joseph W. Phinney
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... American type designer. He started with the Dickinson Foundry of Boston, and practised both type design and management. He eventually ... as Italia). Cloister Black is based on the earlier Caslon Text, and Globe Gothic has a long prior lineage. J.W. Phinney ...
Wiki - Thomas Phinney - 14 Sep 2011 - 10:19am - 0 comments
- 20 most important type designers of all time
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... V.3 — Dead: - Claude Garamond - William Caslon - Frederic W. Goudy - Francesco Griffo - John ... one . Choz Cunningham !Exclamachine Type Foundry The Snark paula scher paula scher Isn’t Manfred ...
Forum topic - Brown Fox - 8 Jan 2007 - 10:25am - 72 comments - 0 attachments
- Caslon Egyptian
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http://www.orangeitalic.com/fonts/caslon.shtml Is this font commercially available? (For me to buy, that is). It seems a nice match for Big Caslon I would like to use for a project. That lower case is dreadful; ... and architectural) by the time of the Caslon foundry's type version. Founders were also slow to add a lower case, ...
Forum topic - mncz - 26 Jan 2005 - 7:05am - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?
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... Cleartype fonts (also adopted in new fonts from a major foundry). Adobe's implementation also covers substitution of oldstyle by lining ... the second to be used for subheads. I beleive Linotype Caslon had this feature. In this context, having a separate small caps font ...
Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- free fonts
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... the lines, though without the sophistication, of Founder's Caslon. Trying out another maxim: Trying out another maxim: "You get ... PS1 format to Altys literally opened the door for the indy foundry and for anyone else; all one had to do was buy a copy of FOG and you ...
Forum topic - thegirlnextdoor - 5 Oct 2006 - 12:12pm - 69 comments - 0 attachments
- Quality of a free font
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... of the "z" (which probably reminded the original poster of Caslon) seems out of place. I get the impression, again from the small sample, ... So you either borrow one from another font, or pay the foundry to make one up. The foundry's special sorts will be both expensive ...
Forum topic - Typical - 4 May 2007 - 11:36pm - 54 comments - 1 attachment
- Top 10 typefaces
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... Minion Bickham Script Univers FF Signa Adobe Caslon Herculanum Adobe Garamond (admittedly a little tired of it ... Trinite, and Van Dyjck FYI, there's a foundry called Hibernia. Times New Roman was designed by Burgess. hhp ...
Forum topic - elastik - 12 Apr 2004 - 11:52am - 66 comments - 0 attachments
