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Re: Palatino in book publishing
Palatino was that rare typeface that survived relatively unscathed in the transitions from metal to film to digital. (It even survived blatant rip-offs.) What helped was its lack of very thin lines a…1 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
An interesting Tuscan with medial decoration was made in the 1780s by Jean-Gabriel Bery, a French stencil maker. A set of Bery stencils (some 4000 of them) was purchased in France by no less than Ben…8 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
It seems to me that poor spacing as a “symbol of humility” is similar to claiming that ransom note typography expresses universalist (I.e., catholic [lc]) sentiment. The disgraceful performance of le…7 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
For anyone interested in the general topic of the history of small caps, here's a article worth perusing: https://works.hcommons.org/records/f1wzt-01t733 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
I find italic small caps supremely useful for setting subheads or sub-subheads, for various uses in extended blocks of italic texts, and for such things as authors’ names in rubrics. But those are re…4
