Typophile - Carol Twombly.. Please help me! - Comments

You remind me of a cartoon I

hrant — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:27:38 -0700

You remind me of a cartoon I saw in my college paper in the previous century where during a fair the Gay & Lesbian Club attacks the Necrophilia Club for being immoral and disgusting. However this, sadly, is not a cartoon.

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Wow, the thread that

John Hudson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:59:23 -0700

Wow, the thread that wouldn’t die gets yet more surreal.

The thing that tends to get overlooked when scientists discover a natural cause for a particular sexual attraction or predilection, as with observation of the occurrence of various kinds of sexual activity among other species, is that natural cause doesn’t imply anything about morality. There’s a romantic tendency to assume that everything that is ’natural’ is morally good or at least morally neutral, which misses the point that morality can only be connected to nature via metaphysics, e.g. through a theology of creation; without such a metaphysics, morality is confined to the human social realm. The fact that some people appear to be genetically predisposed to be attracted to the same sex doesn’t imply that sex between people of the same sex is moral, any more than the fact that very large numbers of men are apparently genetically disposed to be attracted to dozens women in the course of the average day (presuming they live in a sufficiently large urban evironment) doesn’t imply that promiscuity is moral. Nor does the fact that homosexual behaviour is observable among other species mean that it is morally neutral: gang rape and necrophilia are also observed among other species. Which is not to equate these things, only to point out the fallaciousness of making moral arguments from nature.

Just to be crystal: 1) I

hrant — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:00:04 -0700

Just to be crystal:
1) I don’t necessarily believe every word of that.
2) I’m not claiming one is better; I’d simply like to see
more people acknowledge -and even relish- differences.

Equality is death.

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Damm you!!!!! Mikey ;O)

SuperUltraFabulous — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:46:47 -0700

Damm you!!!!!

Mikey ;O)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/he

hrant — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:55:07 -0700

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7456588.stm

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wow.. It seems as if I’m

PHAEL0N — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:20:16 -0700

wow..

It seems as if I’m not the only one in search of the mystique that is Carol Twombl(e)y.

Its been a VERY interesting, educating, and opinionated thread to have read through.

Im currently in a design program and studying typefaces in a Typography design class. If anyone else has relative information factual or fictional, please post a link or share indeed.

and if BOJEV is still out there pleeease contact me (twentysix26@juno.com) so I can possibly get the scan of Carol you have with the vertical Trajan alphabet. Trajan is the particular font Im studying and that scan would prove amazing for my poster design ideas.

Thanks

About one year after your

methylene — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:00:13 -0700

About one year after your first post on this thread, I find myself researching the very same Carol Twombly for typography class... Thanks, Heather, for what you started here, I’m new to design altogether and type is something I have grown to love in the last couple of weeks. Reading all this about her and other random things makes me realize I have so much to learn, and it’s exciting :]

> A 22-page (!) article on

asgeirhm — Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:32:00 -0800

> A 22-page (!) article on Carol Twombly and her type design work at Adobe in the early 90s can be found in Design Graphics magazine, issue #4.

Has anybody still got that article? Looks like DG has removed the back issues offer.

Happy New Year,

dezcom — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:48:12 -0800

Happy New Year, Hrant!

ChrisL

Hrant! Long time no.

pattyfab — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:12:57 -0800

Hrant! Long time no.

So what about that stand-up

hrant — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:04:22 -0800

So what about that stand-up comic business after all, eh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7153584.stm

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Lindsey you can contact

Miss Tiffany — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:01:58 -0700

Lindsey you can contact softblue through their profile

Does anyone know how i can

blondie_border — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:19:21 -0700

Does anyone know how i can get a hold of softbluecries1? I have to do a presentation on Carol as well for my typographic class and would like to compare research. I’m new to this website and can’t figure out how to get in touch with her

>Will you write up, or have

William Berkson — Wed, 9 May 2007 20:38:28 -0700

>Will you write up, or have you already

I did talk about it at TypeCon last summer. It has changed significantly since then as well as expanded. I hope I when I next talk or write about it, it will be finished.

And yes, the text sizes too. There is also a lot of just random variation too, so that makes it harder to pin down what makes it great, and separate the logic from what was a case of needing to get it out the door—which I am increasingly appreciating :)

Very sorry to hear that you had to drop out of Reading. I do hope you are well now.

Hi Nick, I’ve been

George Horton — Wed, 9 May 2007 20:24:35 -0700

Hi Nick, I’ve been increasingly unwell, and had to quit Reading. Things may be looking up, but I’m getting on a bit and should probably earn some money at some stage. I’ve had a set of ideas for what I hope could be a really worthwhile text face, now a very long way from Griffo; but (a) I still can’t draw and (b) I don’t know FontLab well enough to do the necessary OpenType stuff for context-sensitive serifs; there’s also (c) of course, which is that, as a first type, it’s going to be ****, though a long crit-tweak cycle might help.

Thanks William, though there goes my hope. (No, I don’t like 540 either.) When you say Caslon I has much more logic to his alphabets and different sizes than is obvious, do you mean his text sizes too? I’d love to hear more about that. As for Adobe Caslon, I don’t mean to say that it “works” at large sizes, just that it gives me an always-pleasant opportunity to admire its design. Your own work on Caslon must have made you more discriminating. Will you write up, or have you already, your thinking about Caslon, and about the development of your Caslon Next?

Carol Twombly.. Please help me!

softbluecries1 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:30:20 -0700

I have spent the past 3 weeks trying to obtain every piece of information about Carol Twombly for a project in my typography class. I keep seeing things on the web about interviews with her.

If anyone knows where (website) I can find an interview with her it would extremely helpful.

I am also looking for information about her life today. Is she married? any kids? that kind of information. The last thing I found is that she retired from Adobe.