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Re: Google Pics
I don’t know about scribes themselves but in 1492, the (controversial) abbot Johannes Trithemius wrote a book in praise of scribes, though it was distributed in print. I’m not sure how much Trithemiu…4 -
Re: Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)
I would say that Gothic Tuscan was a modular design, rather than a mixfont. In his review of what The Pyte Foundry now calls its “Pyte Legacy” collection, Frank Grießhammer wrote: “To reach his goal …4 -
Re: Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)
I agree with you, @Qwerasd. The wood type you reference above seems to have taken a condensed sans serif as its base, and apply odd terminals to it. I can’t think of a 19th century US typeface in woo…3 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
Indeed! Despite this, Zapf used Palatino in a few books before Aldus was available, including the very text-heavy Gutenberg-Jahrbuch for 1950, which had 444 pages. That was set in the Linotype versi…1 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
The German standard baseline went into effect during the first decade of the 20th century. One of Genzsch & Heyse’s directors had spent time working in the US as a young man during the late 19th…2
