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Old Emerson Typeface

I'm looking for everything/anything on the Emerson face (originally made in the 1930s). hhp Hrant: You’ve ... by John Dreyfus in 1984) did an analysis of the various Monotype text typefaces in, I think, the Monotype Recorder (1960s?). I have a copy of Monotype Composition Faces that was put out ...

Forum topic - hrant - 21 Sep 2005 - 12:24pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

Publications

... Typography Publications Baseline Magazine The Circular font Interrobang Pts. Slanted ... Print The Fleuron Fuse The Monotype Recorder Serif Magazine U&lc ...

Wiki - patrick.s - 12 Aug 2009 - 2:02pm - 0 comments

Classes at Typecon. Comments? Advice?

So! Here are the classes at Typecon. Any comments? Advice? Pre-Conference Workshops ... (more) Carl Crossgrove, Karl Leuthold, and Jim Wasco (Monotype Imaging) $50.00 Basics of Arabic Calligraphy (more) Mamoun ... level! Unless you could send the signal from the AV into a recorder... Hmmm. Randy wrote: Gothic and Randy wrote: Gothic and ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 19 Jun 2007 - 9:07am - 36 comments - 0 attachments

Stanley Morison

... Morison Temperamental typographical advisor to the Monotype corporation and opinionated type historian and theoretician. ...

Wiki - filip blazek - 14 Feb 2007 - 7:29pm - 0 comments

Big Caslon-like serif face on Penguin Books cover

is this Big Caslon? it seems thinner particularly the 's'. The serifs also, in general look a little more rounded, is it just my ... do you fine. Given that it's Penguin and English, English Monotype 337, which Patty mentioned, is a likely guess also, but I don't have ...

Forum topic - edward maddison - 30 Oct 2006 - 1:29pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments

Research about legibility

... than serif • great counters • large x-height • the letter has to be noticeable in the upper half of the x-height • ... was (redigitising wouldn't hurt, from the foundry not the Monotype version), and Seria, Octavian* and small-size Plantin deserve scrutiny ...

Forum topic - Steven Wulf - 13 May 2006 - 5:43am - 179 comments - 0 attachments

Double-spacing after periods

... about "middle-dots" got me wondering about the origin of the "two spaces after a period" rule I learned in typing ... space above the period goves all the break needed. On the Monotype and in hand composition, I will drop even the word space if the next ...

Forum topic - whoisdan - 5 Mar 2004 - 12:41pm - 51 comments - 0 attachments

Problem with adobe ps and type 1 fonts on xp

... brain and won't have a television and seldom listen to the radio. Text is where people record and share what is important to ... to hand set type. In fact inferior to setting them on a Monotype. Maybe I can find something in that format that would make my time ...

Forum topic - John Hudson - 10 Jul 2004 - 10:09am - 45 comments - 0 attachments

I like Gill Sans!

... of distiguishing forms in those three characters. Between the 1, I, and l, only the I is rectangular. I have to agree. And then ... There was a version of Gill Sans made for timetables (Monotype - I think) - uppercase and numerals only, monospaced bold and ...

Forum topic - sorenolsen - 4 Jul 2001 - 2:32am - 20 comments - 0 attachments