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- Famous Quotes from Type Designers
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... letterspace blackletter would steal sheep." Frederic W. Goudy “There are now about as "There are now about as many ... would be an admirable letter for a death notice!" - G. W. Ovink http://www.designingwithtype.com/essays/1_2.html ...
Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- Perrin OT
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... The Perrin from Ovink, p 284. (The chopped glyph is just an "el".) ... More Perrin from Ovink. (259Kb) ... The Beaudoire from Ovink. The Jannet: I'll wait for the Typophile archives to be ... know so much about type. Your scan of The Beaudoire from Ovink is exactly the same one in the book, numerals and all. In my book there ...
Forum topic - nepenthe - 8 Nov 2004 - 8:37pm - 49 comments - 0 attachments
- Is God Dead? Is Type Dead? (top forty magazine covers survey)
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... Mostly, I think you just don't like Bodoni. :-) As G W Ovink, I think it’s As G W Ovink, I think it's an admirable letter for a death notice. Which is not the ...
Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 20 Oct 2005 - 2:36pm - 61 comments - 0 attachments
- modern alternatives to bodoni
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... aloof and old. In fact it's almost dead. As G W Ovink put it: "Bodoni is an admirable letter for a death notice!" Didot ...
Forum topic - beek - 6 May 2007 - 12:34pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Research about legibility
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... Basic forms may be selectively differentiated by e.g. giving c 16th-century Roman capital serifs, or e a terminal beak, or h a ... text faces. Think of Robin Kinross for the former, and G W Ovink for the latter. You've been told this before, by people besides me, but ...
Forum topic - Steven Wulf - 13 May 2006 - 5:43am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- Emigre. (No. 69)
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... because its premise is laughably Modernist. To quote** G W Ovink: "Bodoni is an admirable letter for a death notice!" So yes, any font ...
Forum topic - istitch - 8 Dec 2005 - 3:58pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments
- Font choice for a book of poems
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... somewhat archaic, maybe turn-of-the-century French. As G W Ovink said*, "Bodoni is an admirable letter for a death notice!" The trick ...
Forum topic - Bouch - 1 Jun 2005 - 1:46pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- Sematic Profil for Typefaces
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... This is tricky stuff. You might want to look at G W Ovink's "Legibility, atmosphere-value and forms of printing types" ...
Forum topic - h - 25 Mar 2004 - 12:08pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Psychology of typefaces
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... what? Nicolaj The best one is probably G W Ovink's "Legibility, atmosphere-value and forms of printing types" ...
Forum topic - nicolaj - 8 Jan 2004 - 6:22am - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- Bijou Perdu
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... 1856. The scan is from a predictably wonderful article by Ovink in an old issue of Quaerendo, which also happens to have a reference to ... Hard to explain - you'd really have to read the Ovink article(s). And yeah, I love that hefty apostrophe! ...
Forum topic - hrant - 20 Nov 2003 - 9:38am - 12 comments - 0 attachments
