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Type Thievery

... of El Capitan vs making a photocopy of Ansel Adams'. Mere "mechanical" copying typically does not differentiate between the copyrightable ...

Forum topic - novice - 25 Oct 2005 - 8:56am - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Morris Fuller Benton

... which revolutionised printing. The son graduated as a mechanical engineer from Cornell and went to work with his father in the ...

Wiki - William Berkson - 1 Feb 2012 - 9:03am - 0 comments

The Sloped Roman

... italic a chore. Dwiggins! Had another problem with mechanical italics as well, that vexed us greatly when we went to de-mechanize ... drawn letters, which show his typographic ideals without mechanical limitation. A couple of other examples A couple of other ...

Forum topic - canus - 9 Dec 2006 - 9:11am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... But mechanical sloped-Romans (the kind Morison claimed he invented) were in ... some structures altered - but mostly there's a strong mechanical relationship with the Roman. But is it a sloped or a "true"? ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

(x) "Masculin Feminin" French film (Jean Luc Godard) - Neuzeit Grotesk {Erik S}

... found did look hand drawn - but I think there must be a mechanical version, check out the attached sample I came accross. Can anyone ...

Forum topic - Dominic Forde - 17 Jan 2007 - 3:21pm - 17 comments - 1 attachment

Commercial & Custom Pricing

... to a small literary publication: $1600. Two weights with mechanical obliques. 2) I recently sold an Armenian retail font set (four ...

Forum topic - hrant - 8 Mar 2007 - 1:02pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments

Faithful revivals from early printed pages

... in practical terms..." Yes, since even the most mechanical of methods interprets (contra Hrant?), you are looking for the place ... some life into the setting, because the smoothness and the mechanical uniformity of the setting makes the letter forms look crude and ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments

Appropriate use of the ampersand

... did it with "Anglo" quotes, and without the impetus of mechanical facilitation (the pantograph). * Which is what I call quotes ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 8:57pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

Contrast

... or pen nib, contrast was retained through the advent of mechanical type design and greatly exaggerated in the work of Didot and Bodoni. ...

Wiki - crossgrove - 6 Mar 2011 - 2:18pm - 0 comments

(x) 1960s newspaper headline font - Tempo {anonymous}

... these were developed by the drawing office, possibly by mechanical means -- i.e., obliqued. The italic headlines above bear some ...

Forum topic - jeff560 - 2 Dec 2007 - 12:11am - 31 comments - 0 attachments