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Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
One more thing to add about usage of ®: In the pre-desktop publishing days of the seventies and early eighties, it was used much less frequently in text as far as I can recall with getting type set a…5 -
Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
Well, the reason I had trouble finding ® and © in old metal type catalogs is because they are relatively recent additions. ® was introduced in the U.S. in 1946. © has existed since 1909 in the U.S., …5 -
Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
I think I adopted the ® superscript practice after studying Adobe fonts. Looking through some fonts from different sources, such as Bitstream, Monotype, and Apple, I see that the ® and © are both cap…3 -
Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
That's from the book Frederic Goudy, by D.J.R. Bruckner (1990), p. 122. There are no other samples. The only other mention of the face in the book is on page 45: Here's a 1200 dpi scan with the backg…2 -
Re: Do typedesigners with bad handwriting exist?
That may be to do with the way handwriting is taught in The Netherlands. In the US, when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, a cursive style, descended from the Palmer hand and the like, was tau…1
