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Re: German lead type for scholarship
Initially, I was surprised by your reply. As every introductory book about type begins with a diagram defining things like x-height and cap-height, and surely with your knowledge and interest in this…1 -
Re: A newbie’s attempt at a serif typeface... Please be nice, but not too nice
I will agree that the diamond tittles seem to be a mismatch with the highly contemporary design. However, I really only find the ones on the lowercase i and j problematic, not the ones in the punctua…1 -
Re: High-Quality Doves Specimen Online
Yes, and that's the one that I was referring to as well when I said it was more like Ronaldson No. 1 or Oxford than Bell. The low horizontal bar on the 4 distinguishes that typeface from Bell; a…1 -
High-Quality Doves Specimen Online
I found this document at the Internet Archive:https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_leaves-bibles_elfColgate1O71936-19751 It includes pages from several publications of the Bible famous for …2 -
Re: 1569, Granjon: quote, prime or apostrophe?
This web pagehttps://aphelis.net/origin-development-quotation-mark/gives information on the earliest known use of quotation marks. It turns out that as early as 1516, a symbol having the shape of the…2
