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- Akzidenz Grotesk roots
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... of the 19thC), when the radical tone of the early century had become more conservative. AG is well-known for the logic of ... Festschrift zum einenhundertj Hi I'm new here. By chance I was Googling to find information on AG and found this ...
Forum topic - xurxo_insua - 1 May 2004 - 2:56pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments
- Morris Fuller Benton
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... originals, such as Garamond and Bodoni , to new faces of existing fonts such as Goudy and Cheltenham , to strikingly ... Backslant, Benton, Bold Antique, Broadway, Canterbury, Century Old Style, Century Expanded, Century Schoolbook, Chic, ...
Wiki - William Berkson - 4 Dec 2007 - 12:45pm - 0 comments
- Quintessential American font?
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... perhaps the most often used text face. For some reason, Century strikes me as having an American look. Helvetica has more of a Swiss ... to come down to "adding something a old into something new." Another explanation went along the lines of "in America you don't have ...
Forum topic - chadbrewer - 24 May 2005 - 9:37pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments
- Century Schoolbook | ITC Century | New Century Schoolbook
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... and so I've lost all focus. Matthew Carter designed New Century Schoolbook . I have licenses for ITC Century (Adobe) and Century ...
Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 7 Jul 2005 - 12:38pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments
- Century
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Indices : Typefaces : Century Theodore Low DeVinne (1829—1914), printer of The Century ... & Co., the textbook publisher, with a request for a new typeface for schoolbooks. M.F. Benton began review of research done at ... type by opening up the counters. The result was Century Schoolbook, completed in 1919. In 1964 ATF commissioned Charles E. Hughes ...
Wiki - William Berkson - 10 Apr 2006 - 12:37pm - 0 comments
- Helvetica and "new media designers"
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A quick question, why is all the "new media designers" (quotes because the title is absolutely ... of Helvetica against Baskerville and Times New Roman and Century Schoolbook at similar visual sizes, and see the result. What is the initial ...
Forum topic - sevenfingers - 6 May 2005 - 8:55pm - 122 comments - 0 attachments
- The Digital Curtain -or- Will you stop staring please and say something?!
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... flame war ... etc. That's still good sense. Now, as a new member, I've read somewhere about this thing called a bouma, which is ... I currently use a sensible serif face for this, e.g. Century Schoolbook. Perhaps there are alot of other font-tweakers out there ...
Forum topic - hrant - 19 May 2005 - 4:00pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments
- inciting incidents and specimens - what began your type fixation?
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... by the shapes and how perfect they looked. It was probably Century Schoolbook if my memory is reliable. Throughout my childhood I was ... and still uses Baskerville--first MT, I think, and now ITC New--to excellent effect, despite the criticisms I have heard especially of the ...
Forum topic - ben millen - 5 Aug 2005 - 9:26am - 38 comments - 0 attachments
- (x) Prudential - custom face (based on Century Schoolbook) {Karl}
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... is? Thanks for your help -dave customized century tweaked by Doyald Young From The Art of the ... neither. What's wrong with designing a truly new typeface? Bunch of hi-brow conservatives. (Type ID Board) ...
Forum topic - popinfresh - 30 Jun 2004 - 7:48am - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Typography During WWII
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... etc. Mark Batty Publishers is about to publish a new work entitled "Paper War: Nazi propaganda in one battle, on a single ... for Linotype and Monotype machines, designed in early 20th century. National newspapers printed in Moscow and Leningrad (Pravda, Izvestia ...
Forum topic - souljacker - 7 May 2005 - 8:32am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

