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Re: How to design Serbian Cyrillic PART 2 — True Italics
I don’t have it to hand, but in his translation, Harry Carter lists the typefaces that Breitkopf in Leipzig sent to Fournier for the book. These attributions, among other things, are based on corresp…2 -
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
