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"Boston" Numerals?

In De Vinne's "The Practice of Typography: Plain Printing Types", there's a sample of a face ... That's actually a collage from a more extensive setting. The font is the #19 of the Phelps, Dalton & Co., and was probably made at ... old-style", since they were pioneered by the Didots (thanks to Rodolfo for pointing that out, a while back now). And ...

Forum topic - hrant - 6 Dec 2006 - 10:55am - 46 comments - 0 attachments

HTF Didot vs. Linotype Didot

... anyone tell me when small caps became a regular fixture of the typographic landscape? I am asking because I am in something of a quandry ... been a better choice than Jannon, one must say! But the Didots were terrible misers, it seems, and perhaps it would have cost too ...

Forum topic - Mark Foster - 6 Apr 2005 - 1:05pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments

Experimental type info

... Brandon...From what I've seen and heard, the word 'experimental', as it applies to type, bugs a lot of people ... type design and typography, take a look at the work of the Didots and Bodoni. I think in experimentating, the process, the ...

Forum topic - hodge - 9 Oct 2003 - 9:02am - 64 comments - 0 attachments

Glyphs that Gall

... letter shapes in fonts? For example, I can't stand the foot of the R in Gill Sans stretching out well beyond its bowl above. It's ... that ship with OSF numerals range a certain way. But the Didots just have to be different... very maddening. I love minion to death ...

Forum topic - pdxuser - 14 Jan 2007 - 7:32pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments

John Baskerville

... England in 1706 . As a young man he was introduced to the art of letters while working as a master writing teacher and stone ... and France where Giovanni Battista Bodoni and the Didots furthered his ideas. Baskerville's types have been the source of ...

Wiki - Monoecus - 9 Jan 2007 - 8:46am - 0 comments

Originality of type design: Where does inspiration become copying?

... from a couple of existing fonts. After doing a "What the font" search on myfonts.com (with my design), it comes up with the ... checked. (My point was only about the funky g, but those Didots really are extraordinary faces altogether.) The next bold move on the ...

Forum topic - Pixion - 7 Oct 2006 - 9:39am - 32 comments - 0 attachments

Historical French Typefaces - Suggestions?

... (may be a little on the 'older' side, but French flavoured none-the-less). and also and also older: ... if it's earlier and more classic in feel, try one of the Didots (such as Hoefler's) for larger heads, and maybe FF Acanthus with old ...

Forum topic - kentness - 25 Aug 2006 - 10:28pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Letters in Stone : Copps Hill grave stones

... At Hrant's suggestion ( the full attibution of the suggestion : Matthew Carter ) I visted Copps Hill Cemetary after Typecon ... who made right-side-only-crossbar "f"s (for one of the Didots)? hhp Here are a few clips from Here are a few clips from ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 21 Aug 2006 - 2:44pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments

Porchez Typofonderie

... He has designed such typefaces as Le Monde for the French newspaper of the same name, Ambroise based on the work of the Didots, Anisette , and Parisine. He also designed the Deréon ...

Wiki - gthompson - 21 Aug 2006 - 1:03am - 0 comments

The Romantic period (18th & 19th C)

Does anyone know of any typefaces from the Romantic period besides Bodoni? Or where I could go about finding such ... William! Expansion is different from proportion. See the following page from my ATypI 2003 Vancouver presentation on Henk Krijger's ... genus "many of the romans of Bodoni, Vafflard and the Didots, Austin Scotch Roman, the romans of Marcellin-Legrand and Walbaum." ...

Forum topic - vinylcut - 9 Nov 2005 - 2:57pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments