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OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?

... personal views. Sometimes, both the font developer and the user would be better off if with several separate fonts instead of a ... used for subheads. In fact, back in the linecaster days, Linotype sometimes cut two versions of small caps (in the same size), one to be ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments

current Greek typographic trends?

... Hellenic, which was used for the 2004 Olympics in Athens and found a sample on the Cannibal Fonts website . i was a bit surprised, ... or political status in Greece of the early seventies and Linotype's typeface development to a so called "western" texture. This ...

Forum topic - paul d hunt - 30 Apr 2007 - 10:24am - 63 comments - 0 attachments

Times New Roman Variations

... thinner serifs than the standard... http://www.linotype.com/86584/timeseighteen-family.html Designed for headlines. ... to the post! Times Eighteen is design for use in 18 pt and up. In comparison with smaller Times sizes, its characters are subtly ...

Forum topic - joslog - 9 Jul 2006 - 12:31pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments

(x) Cooper Looser - Midas {Mark S}

I saw this font at ArcheType recently, and last night took a photo of it: I really like the "bravado" - ... by George W. Jones, and my 1928 Caslon specimen book from Linotype, and some offset printing. I suspect from its look and its date ...

Forum topic - hrant - 13 Jun 2007 - 7:15am - 64 comments - 0 attachments

Where did Umbra come from?

I've read on the linotype website that Umbra was originally devised as a "second-color ... is a condensed version. Is there a link between Tempo and Futura? And which other faces could I use to "fill in the gaps"? ... Washington Luddlow of Chicago began making typecasting machinery in 1906, but the Ludlow caster which his company sold throughout the ...

Forum topic - miss c - 4 May 2007 - 3:07am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Why, oh why ?

... as art history books ? I'm a French graphic design teacher and I'm struggling every damn week to find proper description data of posters, ... out that at the time the focus of big companies like Linotype was on selling the machines, and type was a means to that. And there ...

Forum topic - Celeste - 28 Mar 2007 - 7:53pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

What is the connection between blackletter and violent / extreme culture

... university essay on the connection between blackletter and violent and extreme subcultures. I know that there have been some ... was just one organization being part of the whole Nazi machinery (among lots of other organizations) to prepare Germany for World War ... around 1900 (due to various factors, notably the Linotype), the trendy style in typography was Kelmscott-inspired (William ...

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

Space charater width ?

... for the space character. Or is it a question of trail and errpr to see what fits best. Regards R ; ) I always give the ... is where you get the "thick" (3-to-em). And by-the-way, Linotype linecasters weren't on an em system, you had a choice of "spacebands" ...

Forum topic - RachelR - 14 Mar 2007 - 9:46am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

Mono & Lino Together At Last

The merger between Monotype and Linotype announced this morning makes me wonder how typographical history ... marks the paradigm shift. For years, when the font-output machinery drove the wagon, large companies were the only ones who could put it ...

Forum topic - billtroop - 2 Aug 2006 - 4:44am - 143 comments - 0 attachments

Jubilee

... Walter Tracy designed this delightful face at Linotype and Machinery in England during the 1950s. For some strange reason, Jubilee ...

Wiki - dan_reynolds - 14 Feb 2007 - 7:31pm - 0 comments