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- Sloped roman and italic in the same family
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... and italics for emphatic speech? Or would you avoid the sloped roman, as Bringhurst suggests? Just some random thoughts... ... a bit lighter than the corresponding roman might include Centaur, Spectrum, and Weiss. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any ...
Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments
- What to do with my Centaur?
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Typophiles, I ask you for some advice. Over the past two years or so, I've been working on a new digitization of the Centaur types of Bruce Rogers . I've publicly posted images of the 60pt ...
Forum topic - raph - 18 Jun 2007 - 12:07pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments
- Advice please: on useful old books to add to Typophile's library
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... Called "A selection of types from six centuries in use at the office of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen at Haarlem, Holland, Printed & Issued ... Baskerville, Bell, Bembo, Bodoni Book, Caledonia, Caslon, Centaur, Deepdene, Eldorado, Electra, Emerson, Fairfield . . . the list goes ...
Forum topic - ebensorkin - 30 May 2007 - 1:24pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments
- Books
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... Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works ... of Chicago Press, 1966 C The Centaur Types -Bruce Rogers, Purdue University Press, 1996 Complete ...
Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... revival of Griffo's last roman in its 1499 state - the font, in adulterated form, of the Hypnerotomachia - and his 1503 italic for ... Hmmm, what do you think of Bruce Rogers and Centaur? Rogers doesn't have a scary avatar so feel free to be straight. ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- typeface tango: how to decide who can/should dance with whom
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... I hope I don't sound like a robot as my answer is always the same: don't worry so match about compatible typefaces. Nearly any two types ... a more geometrically structured expressionist roman. And Centaur Roman (or Jenson) works beautifully with the blackletter San Marco used ...
Forum topic - TypophileGirl - 5 Mar 2007 - 7:53pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments
- Top 10 typefaces
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... looking for an honest top-10-fonts-list of the fonts you most use. to keep it simple please try to stick to the ... In no particular order, my current favorites: Centaur Futura Brioso Warnock Minion Myriad Arcana Caecilia ...
Forum topic - elastik - 12 Apr 2004 - 11:52am - 66 comments - 0 attachments
- whats your favorite sans serif
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... less Our favorites are a lot less important than what the magazine needs . Tell us as much as you can about it, and its readers. ... in light of the absolute farce that is digitized Bembo and Centaur, that's saying alot. Just in case you're interested in a *good* ...
Forum topic - Jennifer E. Dahl - 16 Sep 2005 - 5:17am - 64 comments - 0 attachments
- Trapping
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... UNITIZING) for Lino, unitizing for Mono. So he made the choice to make the two 'a's fit the 9 units (which yields a ... thread, but it wouldn't let me.} Would Monotype Centaur* be a really good example of the optical scaling expertise of ...
Forum topic - gerald_giampa - 27 Aug 2003 - 6:03am - 101 comments - 0 attachments
- Head-serifs on lc "u" - decision process?
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How do people decide whether to make the head-serifs on a lc "u" flat or angled? hhp I find it depends on ... there are some that have different angles, different sizes/types (full and half) of serif and some have a chirographic lefthand serif. My ... If you look carefully at the optical scaling of (real) Centaur, you'll see that the left head-serif has a much steeper angle in the ...
Forum topic - hrant - 2 Jan 2006 - 2:14pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments
