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Re: 1.5 stories g'
I am not sure this form is an alternate. And who is Van Koch? Do you mean Rudolf Koch? In fact, these, or similar, forms are common to many Art-Nouveau typefaces, e.g. Belwe-Antiqua, Bernhard-Antiqua…1 -
Re: Using literature in a type specimen
I think using copy in other languages to test fonts helps; especially if they are, unlike English and Latin, heavy on diacritics. To promote a new Cyrillic typeface I’ve recently used the following …7 -
Re: Early forms of Cyrillic Р/р
The rho-like rtsy slowly fell out of general use by the late 18th century (the serifless capital version was dropped first). However, typographers and punchcutters outside Russia kept referring to i…2 -
Re: Early forms of Cyrillic Р/р
This is very likely. Here (⬇︎) is the Latin part of the same Малой Канонъ (⬆︎) from Abram Shitsgal’s book of 1947, shown in John’s post. It comes from the same type specimen book of 1748. It looks l…2 -
Re: Macedonian italic /gje localization
The ‘mirrored s’ form of the italic l.c. г can be traced back to the first half of the 18th century. It has not changed a bit since 1748 when the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St.Petersburg issued…2
