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Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
You may recognize it, but can you put a name to it? The initial-letter prompting strategy for remembering names: Go through the alphabet letter by letter, imagining that the particular letter you’re …1 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
No, that’s not the issue I experienced, it was the justification algorithms in layout apps such as Quark and InDesign that caused the difficulty. Even with the same glyph metrics as foundry type, I f…1 -
Re: Ancient Roman Geometric Sans.
From Paul Shaw: The letters would have been filled with metal, probably bronze or lead but possibly gilded (certainly not a precious metal). And I doubt the metal letters would have been raised or be…1 -
Ancient Roman Geometric Sans.
The Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum. It looks like there were letters, likely of precious metal, fitted into the stone, held in place by pegs, the holes for which remain. The vacant letter shapes…5 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Further to Chris’ and my point, here is a typical type house catalog list from 1959 (Advertisers Composition Company, Los Angeles) when Vignelli was first working in the US. The small quantity of ava…6
