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Scotch Roman

... created based on the idea of improving or refurbishing Scotch Roman . i was wondering if anyone had some good links or some good info on ...

Forum topic - Will Miller - 19 Aug 2005 - 9:40am - 15 comments - 0 attachments

Typography in America 1836-1890

... classification, but more likely to be the Scotch Roman variety than Bodoni. The individuality in design that one associates with ... Thanks Joel and Juliet I will do some reading on Scotch Roman! Importing/copying is great. The typeface is for a book called ...

Forum topic - 1985 - 3 Jul 2008 - 10:09am - 13 comments - 0 attachments

The line between Modern and Scotch

... history, geography, etc. The same goes for the term Scotch . However – undoubtedly because the latter evolved partially from ... tend towards modern, and in text, towards slab. Times Roman has Scotch capitals, but not lower case—except in the bold. Bit of ...

Forum topic - Nick Sherman - 29 Jan 2008 - 10:26am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Scotch Romans in books

... there any cultural connotations or traditions regarding Scotch Romans that I am not aware of? Will I be laughed at by typophiles? ... When I once designed a lengthy book in Monotype Scotch Roman, we had the composition house re-arrange the matrix case, substituting ...

Forum topic - jesper - 11 May 2008 - 9:47am - 14 comments - 0 attachments

Serrano: a custom typeface for Bank of New Zealand

... client. The italic, although a bit of a departure from the roman, has a much more friendly feel to it. This difference can be used to ... wrong rather than right). And you aspire to release a Scotch in competition with Matthew Carter? Thanks for reminding me, ...

Forum topic - kris - 1 Oct 2008 - 3:24pm - 114 comments - 0 attachments

Bruce and Nick Shinn's Scotch Modern

... ’The Modern Suite’ which talks about his new Scotch Modern and about George Bruce. At TypeCon I bought a little 1964 ... new york from the ’80s. I think it was called Bruce Roman. The specimen we found was lovely; simple and clean and in my memory it ...

Blog entry - nancy sharon collins - 27 Jul 2008 - 10:18am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Origin of the "pot hook" italic

Top to bottom: Caslon, Bodoni, Scotch Modern There are two main characteristics of this late modern ... Something else apparent in specimens of the era: roman and italic have almost identical word counts. Perhaps this is another ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 4 Sep 2008 - 12:53pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Anachronistic Collateral for a badly written play.

... seeing some anachronistic typefaces—Times New Roman (1930s), Palatino (1950s), Adobe Garamond (1990s). More appropriate to ... something like Monotype Modern or Nick Shinn’s new Scotch Modern, or perhaps Ronaldson. However, I don’t know if any of ...

Forum topic - oprion - 26 Sep 2008 - 5:20pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments

Help needed with historical font choice

... Walbaum , ITC Bodoni Twelve , LTC Bodoni or scotch face like DeVinne Text or MT Scotch Roman (released in 1904, but has many of the characteristics of text face ...

Forum topic - cksalmon - 16 Dec 2007 - 12:14pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments

Bodonite serif from Robert Lowell's Collected Poems

... › TRY SCOTCH ROMAN TRY SCOTCH ROMAN You’re the best You’re the best (Type ID Board) ...

Forum topic - roquestrew - 2 Jun 2008 - 7:48pm - 2 comments - 1 attachment