... UNITIZING) for Lino, unitizing for Mono. So he made the choice to make the two 'a's fit the 9 units (which yields a ... are in existence, it is a matter of access. They would complete the story. If Bruce Rogers and Frederick Warde were happy, I ...

Forum topic - gerald_giampa - 27 Aug 2003 - 7:03am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works ... -Bruce Rogers, Purdue University Press, 1996 Complete Manual of Typography , The - Felici, James. Adobe/Peachpit Press, ...

Wiki - circehouse - 17 Sep 2009 - 11:41am - 0 comments

... Program along with a faculty member/design professional. The program will involve researching typography, studying typefaces, ... I am digitsing a face at present and am using Fontlab to complete this process. I know Fontographer in part, but would sooner use ...

Forum topic - rootedideas - 18 Apr 2005 - 6:02am - 56 comments - 0 attachments

... years old, and I have a font of my own. It's called Cyril. The original inspiration came when I was browsing through letters for some ... conclusion: "Not the Cyril that I made." As such I did a complete redraw, which Cyril desperately needed. Then I used TypeTool, which my ...

Forum topic - Number3Pencils - 18 Apr 2007 - 6:49pm - 29 comments - 8 attachments

... 'nother thread :-) ) and I've avoided justified type in the past so don't have a lot of experience with it. I'm working in Quark ... I won't ever scale a line. But I will use additional manual tracking on occasion to fix problems -- depends upon the typeface and ... I'm about half way through James Felici's The Complete Manual of Typography , and have just started rereading ...

Forum topic - alyce - 9 May 2007 - 12:17pm - 74 comments - 0 attachments

... Piacenza, ma mi trasferir I have to postpone doing the "display to text " challenge. I am crazy busy moving house and ... to double or triple your reading speed. Students who complete these seminars are usually quite satisfied. Just, Carpenter, and Mason ...

Forum topic - piccic - 13 Aug 2004 - 8:01am - 66 comments - 0 attachments

... specimens" (Lane and Lommen). The photo is about 11 years prior to the production of Pascal, but I suspect ... The skills required nothing more than reading the manual. I believe the unit system for Linotype was 12 units Monotype ... master patterns, and then the metal working pattern, I can complete a typeface in one size much quicker than I could if I attempted to ...

Forum topic - hrant - 23 Aug 2003 - 10:47am - 61 comments - 0 attachments

Hi folks, As I'm sure is the case with most of you, my notebook is randomly filled with various bugs and ... is necessarily appropriate for letterpress. Even style manual-wise. You mentioned the problem of poets writing long lines. Well, this ... punctuation. This is where the title/introduction is a complete sentence, as are the items. The list title is what introduces the ...

Forum topic - jason - 8 Jun 2005 - 10:19pm - 58 comments - 0 attachments

... about "middle-dots" got me wondering about the origin of the "two spaces after a period" rule I learned in typing ... when the operator decides that the line just keyed in is complete. An operator wishing to set with tight word spacing on the ...

Forum topic - whoisdan - 5 Mar 2004 - 1:41pm - 51 comments - 0 attachments

... designers and projects. BB Joe you put here the best 2 books for starters!! I just give the same books references to a guy ... you should keep in mind while designing type. The Complete Manual of Typography Once again, not a how-to, but a good ...

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