Typophile - Paganini by Alessandro Butti - Comments

Does anyone have a sample of

metalfoot — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 06:47:51 -0800

Does anyone have a sample of some punctuation from the Paganini font? I simply don’t have any in any of the samples I’ve dug up. Again, this is just for my personal use.

Yes, I meant the weight of

verbosus — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 04:21:56 -0800

Yes, I meant the weight of the typeface itself. I don’t think there’s any sort of blackletter sensibility at play, but I admit my knowledge of these forms at the moment is very limited.

Ruano is basically an

piccic — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 04:20:08 -0800

Ruano is basically an upright cancelleresca, systematized into a typeface.
By “black” Antonio means that’s pretty heavy in weight, I think, compared to the cancelleresca calligraphy. I have the original specimen of Ruano, and although I don’t like so much the lowercase it is undoubtedly an original typeface, even more, considered it was designed in 1926.
I was incredibly surprised to see some uppercase forms I have incorporated into my old Exegetic are amazingly similar to Ruano (the uppercase R and S, the lowercase S).
I think - willingly or not - these forms got in the blood of us Italians, even if the faces were maybe not so extensively used (Ruano was not so ubiquitous as Paganini or Semplicità).

Thanks very much! Thats

Eben Sorkin — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 03:28:29 -0800

Thanks very much! Thats quite interesting! By “black” do you mean the weight itself or a bit of a blackletter sensibility? Or a bit of each?

The picture is not very good

verbosus — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 03:19:10 -0800

The picture is not very good I’m afraid, but hopefully it should give you an idea of the typeface:

Eben: yes, it’s a pretty

verbosus — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:09:21 -0800

Eben: yes, it’s a pretty obscure typeface. Think of an upright chancery italic, pretty black. Me and Claudio where looking at it last week together and although it was promoted for text work (albeit short texts), we thought it was much more suited for display.

I can’t seem to find any

Eben Sorkin — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:51:52 -0800

I can’t seem to find any images of Ruano. Is there a misspelling? Or is the work really obscure?

Ruano (also by Raffarello

verbosus — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:40:58 -0800

Ruano (also by Raffarello Bertieri) rocks!

So I would like to hear what

piccic — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:38:20 -0800

So I would like to hear what Hrant would think about other faces designed by Raffaello Bertieri, since many of them seem more interested in recovery of historical letters within a “romantic” conception.

Hrant, This is wonderful, to

metalfoot — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:36:19 -0800

Hrant,

This is wonderful, to hear that you’re doing a non-literal revival. I’m sure it’ll be great!

To hone my skills at working on such things, I’m creating a for-my-use-only digitization. Learning a lot about how letters work just from the up-close-and-personal work with this typeface!

For Hrant I think it isn’t

Eben Sorkin — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:18:39 -0800

For Hrant I think it isn’t an aesthetically related epithet. When he has used the term in the past it had to do with his sense of the intent of the type maker. If the choices ( florid or no ) were in his eyes aimed at better reading then they were craft. If not, artsy as in for personal expression. The modern/Bodoni look is the aesthetic that I have seen Hrant attracted to over time. Fleischmann & Paganini both have it. Hrant, feel free to correct this if it is mistaken.

I’m very surprised to hear

piccic — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:27:38 -0800

I’m very surprised to hear your appreciation of Paganini, Hrant.
Although very well drawn I thought you could consider it too “artsy”.
What do you mean by “non-literal”? Are you using it as a staring point?

In this case, espresso!

hrant — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:43:53 -0800

In this case, espresso! :-)

hhp

Nice to see your post Hrant!

Eben Sorkin — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:59:12 -0800

Nice to see your post Hrant! Paganini does look like your cup of tea.

Alex, I’m actually working

hrant — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:14:47 -0800

Alex, I’m actually working on a (non-literal) revival of Paganini.
I haven’t seen any phototype or digital samples of it, but frankly
I wouldn’t expect much of them.

Most of my reference samples are in fact from Mardersteig’s books,
although I’ve also found great repro (like of the Filettata cut) in
“Encyclopaedia Typographica” by A J Bastien et alia (1961).

hhp

Paganini by Alessandro Butti

metalfoot — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:24:03 -0800

Was reading through Rookledge’s Type Finder and came across this typeface. I’m simply curious if it’s ever been digitized and if not, why not? It looks like a decent face.