... revival of Griffo’s last roman in its 1499 state - the font, in adulterated form, of the Hypnerotomachia - and his 1503 italic for ... different after 500 years of printing technology evolution! I’m not sure which one to prefer, but I think at larger ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments

... as a factor in reading that insisting on addressing the readability in typeface design is like trying to say that all shoes should ... the descent. A lot can be learned and discussed about the evolution of this system by looking at its dychographic (sp?) shifts and ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 11 Aug 2005 - 6:46am - 76 comments - 0 attachments

... Typophiles, only you can help! Teaching faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can propose courses for study ... of politics—something that might combine politics, history, graphic arts, industrial design, and so on. These short courses are ...

Forum topic - Maurice Meilleur - 14 Mar 2006 - 6:04am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... my first post here on Typophile. I’ve been searching the internet for a site that analyzes some of the more highly regarded ... A Guide to Contemporary Typefaces by Allan Haley Alphabet: The History, Evolution, and Design of the Letters We Use Today by ...

Forum topic - lazyeye88 - 11 Feb 2006 - 1:31pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments

... ideal of book typography is transparency, which allows the author’s verbal style to takes precedence over the typographer’s visual styling. This ideal only makes sense when the ... robust norm-violations—-produces typographic evolution and history.” Can you amplify “in perceptual ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 3 Feb 2006 - 8:19pm - 59 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 ... version of the font. If the entire project shows that evolution, and de-mystifies the process, then I think that would be a fantastic ...

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

Nifty animation documenting the evolution of the current Latin alphabet (As seen on other blogs and ...

Forum topic - engelhardt - 15 Dec 2005 - 8:44am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Does anyone know of any typefaces from the Romantic period besides Bodoni? Or where I could go about finding such ... William! Expansion is different from proportion. See the following page from my ATypI 2003 Vancouver presentation on Henk ... as the end of the line, as the final specimen of a linear evolution of the typographic mainstream that begins and ends with Jenson, with ...

Forum topic - vinylcut - 9 Nov 2005 - 3:57pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments

Many of the Greek capital characters share the same glyph form as Roman capitals. For ... wedding between two different alphabets of independent evolution. Needless to say, the lower the contrast of a typeface is, the ... your artistry on the Greek script, with everything else (history, readability, what Greeks outside of your souvlaki buddies in Toronto ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 24 Oct 2005 - 10:46am - 74 comments - 0 attachments

This is The-typeface-potentially-known-as-Omnium. It is a text typeface with a rotated humanist axis, designed with a large x-height with the aim of strong horizontal emphasis and even colour. A sanserif sibling is ... good work ;) and keep me posted. I’d like to see the evolution. Ligatures can have two Ligatures can have two roles: style ...

Forum topic - Dan Milne - 23 Sep 2005 - 11:46pm - 40 comments - 0 attachments