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Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing

... in Futura for Jan Tschichold, i.e. the proportions of the capitals--and that was too close to the Nazi taste. (Although he did say that ... in Washington, D.C. were built during the 1930's. Often imperial style is appropriated to validate imperial ambitions. Republican ...

Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments

Trajan

... Rome, is often regarded as one of the best models of the Imperial Roman alphabet. Trajan's Column was erected by the Senate and People ... attempt to add a lowercase to the classical roman square capitals. Adobe's Trajan is an all caps alphabet. Small capitals take ...

Wiki - Dunwich Type - 17 Nov 2008 - 7:12am - 0 comments

What is the connection between blackletter and violent / extreme culture

... had I shown them a sample of for instance “Trajan capitals”, as Solipsism pointed out. Their interpretations may be based on ... connection between the style of the Roman capitals and the imperial cruelty of Rome. I like to think the style was established before ...

Forum topic - Thord - 19 Oct 2006 - 5:29am - 139 comments - 0 attachments

(x) Italmond - Michelangelo {Stephen, Mark S}

... each glyph has been newly redrawn. It will included Greek capitals as well (revisions of Zapf's old metal Greek titling face, Phidias ... the Palatino nova family (it will be called Palatino nova Imperial). An older digitization of Sistina is still available from Linotype: ...

Forum topic - misalion - 12 Oct 2005 - 1:19pm - 8 comments - 1 attachment

Calligraphy

... major calligraphic hands or scripts include: Rustic Capitals Square Capitals Uncial Artifical Uncial Insular Majuscule ... Italic Italic Swash Caps Copperplate Imperial Capitals (wiki) ...

Wiki - paul d hunt - 10 Aug 2005 - 7:01am - 0 comments

Historical type sizes

... Principal (6 Cicero); 72 76,530 Imperial (8 Cicero) 96 102,040 ... of latin text in whole sentences (with very very few capitals) and the passages where a lot of Names with capital first letters ...

Forum topic - rs_donsata - 17 Apr 2005 - 8:53pm - 34 comments - 0 attachments

"IN YOUR FACE" - the MyFonts.com Newsletter - February 2004

... "P22 Corinthia", the elegant, traditional "P22 Imperial Script", the swirled and funny "P22 Oh Ley", the ... text, making use of contextual alternates and two sets of capitals to choose from. IHOF's offering 50% off for their Leuschke set ...

News - lorp - 3 Feb 2004 - 5:41pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Custom Font modification

... for you, Trajan is not the only clasically proportioned imperial capitals font available. Try Friz Quadrata or Weiss. There are umpteen ...

Forum topic - fonthausen - 23 Oct 2002 - 8:01am - 23 comments - 0 attachments