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- Phototype italics?
When perusing old phototype catalogs, I was surprised to notice how many typefaces had no true ... John Bell › When you say When you say “Phototype,” which technology are you referring to? The Phototypositor ...
Forum topic - James Puckett - 25 Dec 2007 - 9:13am - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Graphic Designer vs Typographer
... hot metal typeface. Once photo offset lithography and phototype came into their own, the traditional print trades got skewed ...
Forum topic - Eric_West - 18 Sep 2005 - 9:36am - 108 comments - 0 attachments
- Retro = Stealing
... “technology change” argument to be valid with phototype in the offset era, unless someone wants to reinterpret a Diatronic ...
Forum topic - rob_luciani - 2 Oct 2006 - 6:47pm - 80 comments - 3 attachments
- Large X-Heights = More readable?
... of kerning tables to text setting in the early 1970s phototype, and the tight look that infatuated typographers for a couple of ...
Forum topic - DanGayle - 14 Feb 2007 - 10:19am - 73 comments - 0 attachments
- Near clone of Optima on early rulebooks for Traveller role-playing game (late 1970s-early 1980s)
... by camera), press-type, IBM Selectric, photo-headline, phototype, and closer to the eighties - CRT typesetters and the first ...
Forum topic - hammerquill - 2 Oct 2008 - 1:05am - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Fonts with variable metrics
... were plenty of fonts with three or four size masters in phototype. Nobody bought them. That’s why companies like Monotype, Agfa, ... showcased meticulous detail. But compared with metal or phototype, digital technology took it to another level. This Bazaar ...
Forum topic - James Puckett - 1 Sep 2008 - 7:58pm - 69 comments - 0 attachments
- "james gang rides again" Thick, Curvy Sans--please ID!
... from what is on the album cover (which is probably phototype... this album is from the 1970s)... Aside from the fact that they ...
Forum topic - toog - 20 Sep 2008 - 7:32pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- typical 80s sans serif
... type.(Think Univers Ultra Condensed) The fun of phototype: condensing type, letterspacing it. The fun of the photocopy ...
Forum topic - umily - 26 Aug 2008 - 8:07am - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- I am stunned!
... a substantial sum and bomb these f****rs back into the Phototype Age! Michael Ok, I followed the link and Ok, I followed ...
Forum topic - typerror - 31 Jul 2008 - 5:09am - 49 comments - 0 attachments
- Bruce and Nick Shinn's Scotch Modern
I was reading the introduction in Nick Shinn’s ’The Modern Suite’ which talks about his new Scotch Modern and about George Bruce. At TypeCon I bought a little 1964 reprint of a specimen booklet from ’Geo. Bruce & ...
Blog entry - nancy sharon collins - 27 Jul 2008 - 10:18am - 6 comments - 0 attachments
