Lubalin Graph - Ligatures/alternates

belleisle
16.Nov.2007 6.13am
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I am trying to buy a digital version of Lubalin Graph with all the Ligatures/alternates, as seen in this image from an old Letraset catalogue. I know Elsner+Flake have drawn an alternate version of Avant Garde, but they don’t seem to have got round to LG yet.
Can anyone help?



justin_kay
16.Nov.2007 8.57am
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yeah these have not been digitized. havent heard any plans of them to be done... i have utilized them by redrawing them myself.


frode frank
16.Nov.2007 9.44am
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those are really interesting!


Mark Simonson
16.Nov.2007 10.14am
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Lubalin put the ligatures in as an aid to his own predilection for doing tightly spaced, fully justified headlines. The ligatures were a design solution to the problem of making two or more lines of type come out to the same length without changing spacing, size or proportions.