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Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
Interesting! The lowercase is significantly different from De Vinne, though. It’s not mentioned in the article, but Gnichwitz patented several designs for Keystone. Here’s their 1906 showing of De Vi…2 -
Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
De Vinne was frequently used in ads during the early 20th century. I recommend trawling the American/Inland Printer and other magazine and newspaper hi-res archives from 1900–1920.1 -
Re: Characteres Elzeviriens: another French beauty from the Lead Age
The reason is fashion. Wonkiness is in style, perhaps in response to the now fading trend of high-tech geometry. It’s interesting to see this play against the general truth that text serifs are gene…1 -
Re: Characteres Elzeviriens: another French beauty from the Lead Age
There are several volumes on the Internet Archive. Is this the type you mean?1 -
Re: Critique my Wes Wilson style variable font!
I think some of your other forms could have more density too: M, T, W. As an alternative to the spade-like shape, Wilson’s simpler M from this poster:2
