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The Sloped Roman

... Thanks, Terence IIRC Dwiggins’s Electra* IIRC Dwiggins's Electra * had a sloped roman first but the powers didn't think it ... to Tiffany, I'll defer to your superior knowledge of Dwiggins any day, but I thought that Electra was originally released with a ...

Forum topic - canus - 9 Dec 2006 - 9:11am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... ideology or style. > I renounce any authority on Dwiggins. Oh, come on! hhp This is a topic of great ... Rudolph Ruzicka's design of the two-volume tribute to Dwiggins that was published by the Typophiles after WAD's death -- ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

Designers

... Ferdinay Duman : Xavier Dupré : William Addison Dwiggins E Elliott Peter Earls : Otto Eckmann : ...

Wiki - Duncan Forbes - 12 Dec 2011 - 12:10am - 0 comments

Advice please: on useful old books to add to Typophile's library

... faces in use, plus great articles by the likes of Goudy, Dwiggins, Rogers, Rushmore, Morison, Updike, Cleland, Armitage, and many ... Angel , solely because it is a rare example set in Dwiggins's Stuyvesant (which was never released). I've always enjoyed Wallace ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 30 May 2007 - 1:24pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments

Richard Kegler

... Dada, Daddy-O Hip , Daddy-O Junkie, DeStijl, Dwiggins Uncial , Dyrynk , Escher Hand, Folk Art, Goudy Aries, Hopper ...

Wiki - kegler - 5 Oct 2011 - 7:14am - 0 comments

Famous Quotes from Type Designers

... blood and personality that it would jump at you. From Dwiggins fictional argument over the modern age of steel and speed. William Addison Dwiggins Googled with “letterspace Googled with "letterspace sheep ...

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

20 most important type designers of all time

... about ol’ William What about ol' William Addison Dwiggins ? - 20 seems like such an arbitrary number why not 10 or 25? - ... François-Ambrose Didot Firmin Didot William Addison Dwiggins Johann Michael Fleischman Pierre Simon Fournier Robert Granjon ...

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

I ‘found’ a letterpress museum.

... of over 250 thousand measured drawings of type, including Dwiggins' types--pretty amazing stuff. I am Hidayat Tapran from I am ...

Forum topic - kris - 4 Jul 2006 - 1:14pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Spacing method

... vending machine diet :-) ChrisL … and Dwiggins had been ... and Dwiggins had been doing that combination 40 years before that ... Chris, you ...

Forum topic - Miguel Sousa - 1 Nov 2007 - 2:20am - 44 comments - 0 attachments

The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)

... technological era he was describing? That is kind of what Dwiggins, in his skillful PR for Electra, claimed for that face, but it can't ... transitionals so admired by Updike, whose influence on Dwiggins cannot be overestimated. Renner's Steile by contrast really does mark ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments