... real understanding of typography. I know very little about the history of typography, it’s technological evolutions and the rules of ...

Forum topic - sebsan - 19 Aug 2005 - 5:24am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

I’d love to add timelines to the wiki , but don’t want them to be incomplete or incorrect. I also realize that something like an history about something like posteres can be subjective as you first must ... Mainz, Germany. 1461 — Mainz, Germany. Leaflets and Posters were printed for both sides during a feud between bishops. ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 20 Apr 2006 - 6:52am - 37 comments - 0 attachments

... tend to have a great variety of different slants to the letters. Does making them more uniform help readability, or not? Do wider ... of type. Unfortunately, most commentators on printing history know very little about manuscript production, so credit Aldus with the ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 20 Jan 2006 - 1:26pm - 66 comments - 0 attachments

... newsstand anywhere in San Francisco? Right now I only have the PDF), and the subject of this issue is Hrant's beloved subject of ... articulate why and don’t know anything about the history of the particular type or its place in the typographic scheme of ...

Forum topic - Forrest L Norvell - 12 Mar 2005 - 4:47pm - 98 comments - 0 attachments

Your last suggestions were great not for the next letter or letters. I thought it would be better to combine the two. My ... I am wanting to know everybodys tips,opinions, and advice on designing the uppercase B and lowercase b. Are there any problems ... design like Garamond or Caslon, or the entire genealogical history of Helvetica, or.... To reiterate the main point, there are ...

Forum topic - orso2932 - 1 Jan 2006 - 10:05am - 34 comments - 0 attachments

This press release just came across the wire... ... I’ll leave dietic resuscitation to the clergy and their politician friends. Unless they dumb down the population to the point ... the most functionality, and by far the cheapest prices in history. Type isn’t even a carcinogenic and doesn’t cause global ...

Forum topic - sii - 20 Oct 2005 - 3:36pm - 57 comments - 0 attachments

How many of you think my attempt to ground the term bouma or bouma shape in bounded map has merit? The ... is based on making the expression bounded map one word and then dropping the nded of bounded and the p of map . The ... consistent with Gerrit Noordzij’s views on the history of writing. Hrant’s “but in blurry, parafoveal ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 19 Oct 2005 - 3:51am - 116 comments - 0 attachments

My turn for a dumb question. Yes, we know that the typographic term color refers to the level of gray of a block of ... height of Modernism, saw more deaths that at any time in history. Modernism started with monotheism/Rome. It is a lust for Control, ...

Forum topic - Norbert Florendo - 24 Sep 2005 - 7:04am - 75 comments - 0 attachments

... casual and has some attitude, a little graffiti vibe in the style of the Mossimo logo ( www.mossimo.com ), but not a bonafide ... industrialism. Most people believe, because their history textbooks tell them so, that the American Civil War was waged to put an ...

Forum topic - dctroy - 6 Aug 2005 - 10:00pm - 46 comments - 0 attachments

... Tharp Self Promo Question › Jean F Porchez was the Jean F Porchez was the editor of the book “Lettres ... socieities is that they reflect the vast majority of human history: civilisation is a recent phenomenon. So it isn’t unreasonable to ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 15 Jul 2005 - 8:53am - 62 comments - 0 attachments