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Re: Looking for information on early-twentieth-century letterpress book face
For what it's worth, the display face is Piranesi from the ATF catalog (specimen available here).I might be making a complete fool out of myself, but the body text does not appear to be any of the &q…3 -
Scarbo — an attempt at a text face
It is with some trepidation that I submit my design for critique, since several of this forum's esteemed contributors expressed some strong opinions about essentially derivative typefaces, superfluou…1 -
Re: Polish: the ł_ł ligature revisited
I'm not sure what do you mean by "this glyph": the regular, single ł or the esoteric and perplexing ł_ł. According to my quick-and-dirty analysis of data from an open Polish dictionary, the…1 -
Re: Polish: the ł_ł ligature revisited
The letter ł itself was introduced to Polish orthography in the early 16th century. Behold its print debut: It is very difficult, however, to find early examples of ł_ł pair in manuscripts and old b…13 -
Re: Polish: the ł_ł ligature revisited
As a proud representative of ze Poles, I would consider only #5 to be remotely acceptable. However, in a normal reading context it would certainly drive my attention away from the text. Since there i…19
