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Re: History of medial decoration?
An interesting Tuscan with medial decoration was made in the 1780s by Jean-Gabriel Bery, a French stencil maker. A set of Bery stencils (some 4000 of them) was purchased in France by no less than Ben…8 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
It seems to me that poor spacing as a “symbol of humility” is similar to claiming that ransom note typography expresses universalist (I.e., catholic [lc]) sentiment. The disgraceful performance of le…7 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
For anyone interested in the general topic of the history of small caps, here's a article worth perusing: https://works.hcommons.org/records/f1wzt-01t733 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
I find italic small caps supremely useful for setting subheads or sub-subheads, for various uses in extended blocks of italic texts, and for such things as authors’ names in rubrics. But those are re…4 -
Re: Linocomp II output
My recall of this machine is a little vague, but I do remember that the output was to paper. I believe the roll contained both a photo-sensitive receiver and the output paper (for paste-up), which on…4
