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SoCal Type Fanatics

... and Greg Lindy (lux), from Burbank and Venice, respectively. What this all means I have no idea. Maybe ...

Forum topic - hrant - 25 Jan 2003 - 11:59am - 51 comments - 0 attachments

Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing

... independent Italian republics -- especially Florence and Venice -- during the 15th century. Of course they appropriated an imperial ... as a manuscript hand a half-century before Jenson in Venice and Rusch in Strasburg chose to adapt that style to printing precisely ...

Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments

Machiavelli 1506

... Poliphili which was published around that time by Aldus in Venice. I'm working on a clean version of it, but I could easily do a quick ...

Forum topic - Don MacDonald - 22 Mar 2007 - 8:33am - 15 comments - 1 attachment

armenian text

... the first Armenian printed book, by Yakob Mełapart (Venice 1512), with the works of Nicolas Jenson and Francesco Griffo a ...

Forum topic - Toby Macklin - 6 Apr 2006 - 6:43am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Corporate initiated typeface designs

... (hole in a wall) is Comic Sans!!!! Metro machines and Venice chocolate stores!!! Viva la Comic Sans! Better Viva la Comic ...

Forum topic - Martin LAllier - 29 Jul 2006 - 9:44am - 56 comments - 0 attachments

greek ductus

... and all the more remarkably so because Ratdolt worked in Venice and would have been familiar with these other Greek types. IF ...

Forum topic - docunagi - 18 May 2007 - 6:24am - 61 comments - 0 attachments

Standard Type Size Increments

... that didn't follow that rule; for example, I remember Venice being available in only 14, and Athens and San Francisco being available ...

Forum topic - hanneman - 19 May 2007 - 9:54pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

what is the name of the 1st ever serif font?

... really serifed. Nicholas Jenson's typefaces (ca. 1470 in Venice) are often considered the world's first serif types. But these ... and thereafter. If I recall correctly, Aldus Manutius (Venice, ca. 1500) made use of small caps in his books. But I can't verify that, ...

Forum topic - missgiggles - 20 Nov 2006 - 3:52am - 76 comments - 0 attachments

15th Century CE

... "Roman" typefaces (like Nicholas Jenson's later work in Venice), borrowed this two-case innovation from the scribes. 1469 Johannes da Spira established the first press in Venice . 1470s 1470 Johannes da Spira died and Nicholas Jenson ...

Wiki - paul d hunt - 31 Dec 2006 - 12:33pm - 0 comments

Carolingian Minuscule

... "Roman" typefaces (like Nicholas Jenson 's work in Venice), borrowed this two-case innovation from the scribes. (wiki) ...

Wiki - dan_reynolds - 31 Dec 2006 - 8:57am - 0 comments