The legend of Eisenhower’s Skinny 'S'

Russell McGorman Posts: 264

June 2016 edited June 2016 in History of Typography

Via Type Culture's Facebook page: Times' Eisenhower's skinny 'S' and the story of how they dealt with a longish name when it started showing up in headlines.
Interesting read.

Tagged:

• history
• metrics
• font design
• type design

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  Richard Fink Posts: 165

  June 2016

  +1  An interesting piece about an odd intersection of typography, type design, and American Presidential history. 

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  Chris Lozos Posts: 1,458

  June 2016

  VERY cool!
  
  

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  Nick Shinn Posts: 2,254

  June 2016 edited June 2016

  And the Artist Formerly Known As Prince symbol never did make it into Unicode.

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