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Appropriate use of the ampersand

... When is it, and when is it not, appropriate to use the ampersand character (&) instead of the actual word “and”? ... Well, I arrived at this thread because I'm handsetting a colophon in lead type, Caslon Italic No. 540, and as I was counting the sorts ...

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

Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces

{Over in the Design area, there's a thread called "Overused Typefaces"* ... expose boiling over in my head about this at the moment, but for now let me ask this "set-up" question: Why is ... History of Yiddish" or something! You would have a colophon explaining the whole sordid affair, and how it doesn't make sense ...

Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments

Old Emerson Typeface

I'm looking for everything/anything on the Emerson face (originally made in the 1930s). hhp Hrant: You’ve ... It seems to me that the article was in a copy of The Colophon, but I can't be certain. Can't swear that I will ever find it, but I'm ...

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

Enfin Javal!

... hhp Well, Javal is conceptually exactly the reverse of the later Bauhaus and so on. Make forms different as ... has a footnote that's better than your average colophon! In the footnote he says that the typeface (in three ...

Forum topic - hrant - 19 Sep 2003 - 12:23pm - 42 comments - 0 attachments

Publications

... Typography Publications Baseline Magazine The Circular font Interrobang Pts. Slanted ... Das Schreiben als Kunstfertigkeit The Colophon The Dolphin Fine Print The Fleuron ...

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

BABY TEETH

... and thought I remembered someone asking about it. the lettering on the Dylan poster came first and Glaser turned it into a ... of "Fader" used Bustle for headlines, and in the colophon it was atributed to Glaser as its original designer). ...

Forum topic - beejay - 30 Dec 2003 - 1:34am - 14 comments - 0 attachments

Regarding the use of the ampersand

... I thought I'd give myself a good grounding the classics, so I'm reading up on Tschichold's work and Geoffrey ... that Gerald's use of it is completely appropriate. A colophon, or even an entire fine-printed book, is neither normal, nor body ...

Forum topic - kaisa - 27 Sep 2004 - 1:31pm - 40 comments - 0 attachments

Correct use of small caps at the beginning of a paragraph

I've noticed that the first few words - sometimes one, other times 3 or more, are in small caps at the beginning of paragraphs in some of the better books I own. These words in ... decision left up to the writer? Is there a colophon in any Is there a colophon in any of those books that might ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 30 Dec 2005 - 1:10pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments

Please ask me_

ONLY QUESTIONS, NOT THE ANSWERS! :) ... Typophiles, Its a bit different kind of thread but the only way can learn something new. My final jury(exams) of this semester ... one out already) What would you expect to find in a colophon? Give the order of textual marks you would use to show four ...

Forum topic - satya - 18 Nov 2007 - 1:06pm - 78 comments - 0 attachments

Pixel font for print...Fedra? / Lo-res?

... compromise legibility. What do you think about using the typeface Lo-Res 9 (Narrow & Small Caps) by Zuzana Licko for setting ... wasn't! For example maybe by reading a carefully-composed colophon. * And if somebody is savvy enough to think such a thing, he might ...

Forum topic - Maria de Lurdes - 17 Jun 2007 - 2:25am - 15 comments - 0 attachments