... more important. In the first half of the past century, Goudy and Dwiggins were letterers, and Gill a stone carver. It’s not just ... of the Roman du Roi type, written with a split nib pen, thirty years before the cutting of the typeface? * * * Pace Harry ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 20 Sep 2007 - 3:31pm - 269 comments - 0 attachments

... the obvious avoidance of the obvious’: Bliss and Goudy Old Style—the Lanston version with the full descenders—are ... been attributed to Baikal Skullcap there over the last thirty years (4, out of hundreds of millions of patients), and whether there is ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 14 May 2007 - 9:33am - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... blackletter would steal sheep.” Frederic W. Goudy ‹ The future of Cyrillics. FF Unit, We Like It! › ... are you sure you Tiffany, are you sure you have that Goudy quote correct? It is normally cited as ’lowercase’, not ... a font made from the Matrix movie title. Thirty hours for a quick display font? Makes me wonder what kind of spread it ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 4:47pm - 116 comments - 0 attachments

... c.1930 was surely just such a thing, following thirty years of sustained and near complete serif-based historicism in the ... than in terms of suitability for use. When Goudy was speaking about old bastards stealing all the best ideas, he had said ...

Forum topic - Nick Job - 26 Feb 2008 - 7:46am - 103 comments - 0 attachments

... Here's Dieter Steffmann's version of Goudy Thirty . Quite a different interpretation than Giampa's, and even more ...

Forum topic - jonathanlawley - 27 Mar 2004 - 5:02am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Indices : Designers : Frederic W. Goudy The preeminent American type designer who had created over 100 ... Director of Lanston Monotype Company from 1920-1947. Thirty of his designs were created specifically for Lanston and all will be available in the near future as a fitting tribute to Goudy’s typographic legacy. Articles Wikipedia Article on ...

Wiki - paul d hunt - 20 Nov 2006 - 6:20am - 0 comments

... but the stress of the ampersand differs from the stress of Goudy Old Style. Hrant, you used to like the ampersand of Monotype Script Bold. ... it like “I was terribly jetlagged & slept for thirty hours” (much like I’d never use the + sign in text ...

Forum topic - satya - 18 Nov 2007 - 2:48pm - 67 comments - 0 attachments

... titling font. Adobe Garamond, Perpetua, Utopia and Goudy Old Style are a few that come to mind. I would suggest Trajan or ... Driade Mystic Tai Chi Goudy Thirty Kells Take your pick. ;^D A bunch here: A bunch here: ...

Forum topic - timfm - 1 Aug 2006 - 7:51am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... would have been writing! He wasn’t in America with Goudy typefaces or Jenson revivals. THAT makes much more sense. ... (one could see Tschichold as wanting Helvetica/Univers thirty years early) and because many printers still had no sanserif type in ...

Forum topic - James Puckett - 15 Aug 2007 - 11:01am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... companies have gone bankrupt and disappeared in the past thirty years? How many times have the surviving ones been in receivership or ... to that of C. But bear in mind the tenor of the times when Goudy, Cooper, and Gill were dealing with the straightjacket of the drawing ...

Forum topic - billtroop - 2 Aug 2006 - 5:44am - 143 comments - 0 attachments