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- Typographic Tattoos??
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... tatoo'd up his forearm in approx. 140pt Copperplate Gothic. Earlier this year he got bored with the typeface and had the design ... of growing up in a small port town, and thereby from early childhood on associating tattoos with unemployed, drunken old sailors. ...
Forum topic - Hildebrant - 4 Sep 2003 - 7:14pm - 106 comments - 0 attachments
- Spiro 0.01 release
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... designed entirely using these spirals, as was Christian Gothic and pretty much all of my work-in-progress for the last year or so. The ... was da man (as Laplace* found out the hard way) and it's early days so maybe we can do something. * Or was it somebody else? I'm ...
Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- An amusing exercise
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... is nice. It reminds me of the contractions one finds in early printed books, which is a good sign. Maybe something like Maybe ... Last thing, a butt-like logo that has not forgotten its gothic origins : I'm afraid this funny exercise is making myself ...
Forum topic - cerulean - 19 Nov 2005 - 12:31pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments
- HTF Didot vs. Linotype Didot
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... the Didot and other romantic types of the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Margaret M. Smith wrote an excellent essay for the ... type - a combination of Fournier text and ITC Franklin Gothic headings. Personally, I would prefer to read more books in Fournier and ...
Forum topic - Mark Foster - 6 Apr 2005 - 1:05pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments
- Typeface classification
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... baroque, rococo, neo-classical, romantic, Victorian, neo-gothic, early modernist, international modernist, etc. -- because I like to think about ...
Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments
- 20 most important type designers of all time
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... for a roman type face—he was printing a roman as early as 1464. The face isn't very pretty, so he is an important type designer, ... too French to really be a world-wide success. AvantGarde Gothic was a sensation when it came out, but nobody would call it a good ...
Forum topic - Brown Fox - 8 Jan 2007 - 10:25am - 72 comments - 0 attachments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... I first posted real results from this method: Christian Gothic . In that thread, you'll find a bunch of sample images, a heated ... only variance, and to some extent, particularly with the early printers, that was the whole point of it, whether there was a choice in ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- Not Obeying the 'Times' Requirement
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... trying to avoid students using Comic Sans or Copperplate Gothic to write a 10-page paper, and that most of those instructors in turn ... Antiqua, or Georgia. (This may be a holdover from the early days of desktop publishing, when too many people were stoked that they ...
Forum topic - copperfont - 3 Mar 2007 - 7:09pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments
- Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces
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... the influence for the the first typefaces. The "gothic" style of lettering (i.e., texturas) probably developed in ... the squared off version, which is as ugly as many of the early gothic blackletters. geo. OK, here it OK, here it is: ...
Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments
- Papyrus need to be put back in the tomb for a few decades.
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... feel the same way about i feel the same way about Bank Gothic. i think it's a great face with a good history, but is so overused, it ... equipment before the desktop revolution and back in the early 80s every third practitioner of the healing arts that walked in wanted ...
Forum topic - alchion - 2 Jan 2006 - 4:43pm - 73 comments - 1 attachment
