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Re: Which version/national cut of Times (New Roman)?
This is an example of phototypesetting, and a rather good one at that. You can tell by the softness of the imaging, which was output onto photosensitive paper from a film matrix. I suspect it is the …2 -
Re: Portuguese type specimens
António, it seems that you are interested in acquiring books, not only looking at them. You would do well to make standing inquiries among the antiquarian booksellers who specialize in typographic bo…1 -
Re: Who designed Prestige Elite?
The Museum of Printing, in Haverhill, MA, acquired John Schappler’s entire typographic collection—some 11,000 pieces, including his correspondence concerning various aspects of type design. In fact, …1 -
Re: A Meditation on Arno
If the late, great James Brown was the “hardest working man in show business,” then Robert Slimbach must be the “hardest working man in type design.” He may well be the most underrated, too. Like Bro…4 -
Re: List of glyphs that remain upright in italics
I agree with André. The tradition in metal typefounding was to make a set of mathematical symbols and operators in each size, in a single weight, to be used with any font. These included parentheses,…5
