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... wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works of three ... Hartley & Marks, 1995 G Goudy’s Type Designs, His Story and Specimens -Goudy, Frederic W. Oak ...
Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... Bodoni. The variety of serif treatment in Incunabula type accomodates the fact that had they been made the same, they would have ... group various instances of a letter as different original designs, but here again there's no reason to introduce the reviver's ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)
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... (AKA Bauer Topic or URW Topic). I'm hoping those with type book collections can help me out with more information on its history and ... so many aspects of Renner's life and times to his type designs, and its depth -- discussing issues like National Socialism and ...
Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments
- Trapping
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... Monotype where the units were based on the em of the type, The units in Linotype were simple a fixed formulae giving truth to ... use were a TINY group of popular newstext and classified designs, and NOTHING ELSE. However, since Fairchild monkeyed with the ...
Forum topic - gerald_giampa - 27 Aug 2003 - 6:03am - 101 comments - 0 attachments
- garamond anyone?
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... the ascenders & descenders, in the days when we used Type 1 fonts but still ran repro. With the repro-negative-plate process, the ... my great loves is George Jones's Granjon but, like so many designs, it did not make it over the hump from metal to digital with any grace. ...
Forum topic - sbobrow - 18 May 2007 - 1:21pm - 52 comments - 0 attachments
- Archive through August 27, 2003
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... off the abrasiveness) always logical and consistent in his arguments. He is clear in his presentation and is capable of identifying ... anyway? 1.) Would you rather have your type cut by an expert hand punchcutter, or by an expert Benton Pantograph punch ...
Forum topic - hrant - 23 Aug 2003 - 9:47am - 61 comments - 0 attachments
- When a typeface is no longer a typeface...
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... Misc Reading: A Garamond by Any Other Name "Type 1987" Revisited Well, one thing to remember Well, one thing to ... at the latest in the 1880s--in passing in his essay dedicated to Matthew Carter, in 'Typographically Speaking: the Art of ...
Forum topic - paul d hunt - 14 Dec 2006 - 7:44am - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- font study : reference material
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... A good starting point for looking at the charcteristics of type would be Making Digital Type Look Good by Bob Gordon. Good luck with your ... when used as a possessive pronoun, takes an apostrophe; his, hers, yours, ours and its do not. Hello .pixr, I am not sure ...
Forum topic - kj_kooijman - 17 Nov 2005 - 2:53pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments
- inciting incidents and specimens - what began your type fixation?
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... me thinking about where my own (though relatively recent) type fixation came from and why i now spend far too many hours reading ... school. We were looking for a type to use in redesigning his magazine, and we both loved Galliard as soon as we saw it. Later, when ...
Forum topic - ben millen - 5 Aug 2005 - 8:26am - 38 comments - 0 attachments
- Masthead for a newspaper
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... and am thinking of cleaning it up for one of my designs, another blackletter face i'd like to see head our paper is ... Evenutally i'm hoping we'll change our body type and the type for headers and would appreciate any suggestions there as ... a bit by looking at the before and after of some of his blackletter nameplate restorations. And if Jim sees this of course, he ...
Forum topic - pablohoney77 - 3 Feb 2004 - 5:15pm - 57 comments - 0 attachments
