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Re: Looking for a Caslon Font
I’m not sure what your question is (if you have one).Caslon by George Williams has nothing to do with Williams Caslon. The former is indeed licensed under the SIL Open Font License. I don’t have anyt…5 -
Re: The Place of the Low-waist 'a' in Modern Latin-Based Fonts
To some extent, the size of the bowl is linked to the optical size: a small/low bowl can look elegant when used large. At the same time, it needs to retain a certain size in order to stay open when u…3 -
Re: Does Surrealism have a Typographic Language?
In 2010, Rick Poynor curated an exhibition titled Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design. There is a catalog. As far as typographic works are concerned, I recall seeing the pictorial alphabets by Jin…6 -
Re: When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
Interesting question! I don’t know about “first”, but there are a couple of American typeface designs that (partly) precede the mentioned trends and protagonists. Here’s Eccentric (1881) and Dynamo (…8 -
Re: Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book
Thanks a bunch for sharing, Jesse! Apart from being a wonderful window into commercial typography from that period, it’s a great resource that will help narrowing down the dates of some of Filmotype’…4
