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- Large X-Heights = More readable?
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... owing to commercial exigencies." Aims in founding the Kelmscott Press, William Morris, 1895 Interesting how the original post asked only ...
Forum topic - Dan Gayle - 14 Feb 2007 - 9:19am - 73 comments - 0 attachments
- Venetian
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... and calligraphic categories, as does the similar Doves Press font. Goodchild , by Nick Shinn , and its headline companion ... to hairlines, culminating in the Didones . The Kelmscott Press and Golden types of William Morris are the best known ...
Wiki - raph - 1 Nov 2006 - 12:30pm - 0 comments
- Companions for Centaur
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... direction, I know... Context-wise, I'm a Freelance Pre-Press Artist/Illustrator, and I'm wanting to redesign my resumes/invoices/other ... saw Goudy Sans was, among many others, Mr. Morris and the Kelmscott Press. I'll suggest pairing the Golden Type with that :) Btw, ...
Forum topic - ginapaloma - 1 Jul 2006 - 8:51pm - 33 comments - 0 attachments
- Student needs help with Caslon
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... The first "modern" use of Caslon was by the Chiswick Press, who in the late nineteenth century competed with William Morris' Kelmscott Press to produce books of more humane character than had been the ...
Forum topic - MPete - 31 Mar 2006 - 7:21pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Charles Robert Ashbee
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... Robert Ashbee b. Isleworth, UK Took over Kelmscott Press in 1896 following death of William Morris to found Essex House Press ...
Wiki - Jared Benson - 17 Jan 2006 - 11:01am - 0 comments
- Anatomy of a Typeface
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... fat faces and mad inverted serifs), falling standards of press work, and an eventual bastardization (by way of Scotch Roman, perhaps) of ... influenced by the private press movement, of which the Kelmscott Press was just a part. You might also want to look at the work of the ...
Forum topic - sebsan - 4 Oct 2005 - 12:50pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- inciting incidents and specimens - what began your type fixation?
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... as we saw it. Later, when I worked for the university press at the same school, designing and editing books, I introduced them to ... after him. He also bought and installed in his house the Kelmscott press, on which William Morris had printed his famous 'Chaucer'. He ...
Forum topic - ben millen - 5 Aug 2005 - 8:26am - 38 comments - 0 attachments
- William Morris
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... industrialization of English society. Founded The Kelmscott Press . Designed many types for that press, and specialized in a kind of idealized Renaissance design, heavily ...
Wiki - filip blazek - 2 Jul 2005 - 4:11am - 0 comments
- Chunky Book-Faces.
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... to historical models for type. The auteur-like private press and careful craftsmanship part of A&C, well, I don't know if that ... Nicolas Jenson". Here is Jenson as revived by the "Kelmscott Press". http://lanstontype.com/Jenson.html But here is ...
Forum topic - A. Scott Britton - 21 Jun 2004 - 10:07am - 84 comments - 0 attachments
- Pop quiz rides again
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... OK... Name the full lineage of ownership of the Kelmscott Albion Press No 6551 1891-94: Hopkinson & Cope 1894-96: William Morris ...
Forum topic - steve_p - 3 Mar 2004 - 2:35pm - 70 comments - 0 attachments
