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What are you listening to?

... from Sam and Janet, blues-touched and great. William Parker / Billy Bang / Hamid Drake - Scrapbook - Jazz Lives! Highly ... self-promotion: ya'll should definately check out The William Caslon Experience . Free CD with the purchace of the font family. Bix ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 10:54pm - 518 comments - 0 attachments

Caslon

Indices : Typefaces : Caslon William Caslon 's types of the early eighteenth-century were extremely popular then, ...

Wiki - pstanley - 28 Aug 2008 - 2:52am - 0 comments

The bouma of space craft

... <!--/attachment--> To my eyes, at 12pt, Adobe Caslon Std looks just fine with the metrics, or with no kerning at all (the ... is better spaced for text. I concur. John, Raph, William: in the best of all possible worlds, shouldn't the top ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

Display v. Text

... most used old style serif faces - Garamond, Baskerville, Caslon - will be within the ideal range, and you can't really improve on ... better with greater interletter space between stems. William, you do realize that this "holding together" business is ...

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

Quintessential American font?

... The first Declaration of Independence was printed in Caslon. Which isn't much like 19th-century slave lettering or contemporary ... modern age of steel and speed[7]. Carter, Sebastian, 'William Addison Dwiggins' in Twentieth Century type designers. London. Lund ...

Forum topic - chadbrewer - 24 May 2005 - 9:37pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments

TYPO 13

... subjects, you follow Williams' good counsel. William, I could have said (had I taken more time and had I had less of a ... wrings his hands and says 'Oh dear, I wonder whether Caslon is more minutely readable than Garamond or the other way around'. ...

Forum topic - Forrest L Norvell - 12 Mar 2005 - 4:47pm - 98 comments - 0 attachments

Caslon&#39;s Caslon&#39;s Caslon

... discussion here about different metal versions of Caslon's oldstyle types. At the time, I uploaded an image of the version ... of the eighteenth century in Chiswell Street, London, by William Caslon . One can't get much more of a precise description of the ...

Forum topic - John Hudson - 23 Jan 2004 - 11:03am - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Christian Gothic

... can keep them as a featured artefact (Portishead, Founders Caslon), but averaging them just creates soft noise. With letterpress ... I thought you rejected that sort of personal attack. William, please maintain William, please maintain focus on the content. (Was ...

Forum topic - raph - 15 Feb 2005 - 12:47am - 113 comments - 0 attachments

Helvetica and "new media designers"

... testing. If you set a page in Helvetica and in, say Adobe Caslon or any of the classic serif types, and ask people I bet you you will get ... a lot of other good uses, of course. william... realistically with the ideal of "cool" out there who is ...

Forum topic - sevenfingers - 6 May 2005 - 8:55pm - 122 comments - 0 attachments

Foundries making things other than type?

... type. And come to think of it, this might be related to Caslon, since he started off by engraving rifles, and then came his derivations ... benefited from the NS-regime during the 1930s.* William Shire reported from Berlin in 1945 that the Germans marched around ...

Forum topic - matt_desmond - 20 Oct 2004 - 6:24pm - 71 comments - 0 attachments