#letterforms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #letterforms, aggregated by home.social.
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Slight imperfections in compositional alignment…detail of a specimen page from the 1887 _Palmer & Rey’s third revised specimen book and price list of printing material_ showing Wm H Page Wood Type Co border No 193 (and two line and two-and-one-half line samples of Antique Tuscan Extended.
The 1887 Palmer & Rey catalog is held in a number collections around the US including Columbia University, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, the Hunting Library, University of California at Berkley, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Deleware, and in the Kemble Collection now at Stanford University.
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My running hypothesis as a UX Researcher: Does a deep knowledge of a non-Latin script—and the pen/formatting skills learned from that cultural perspective—make a typographer more inclined to favor the single-story 'a'?
It's a familiarity/taste thing, maybe? 🤔 #TypeDesign #Typography #UXResearch #Letterforms
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My running hypothesis as a UX Researcher: Does a deep knowledge of a non-Latin script—and the pen/formatting skills learned from that cultural perspective—make a typographer more inclined to favor the single-story 'a'?
It's a familiarity/taste thing, maybe? 🤔 #TypeDesign #Typography #UXResearch #Letterforms
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Just published a case study on our site about how Ghanaian street poster lettering became a Google Font. David Abbey-Thompson's work on Ga Maamli is a brilliant example of preserving vernacular design digitally, making it worth sharing for anyone interested in how culture shapes typography.
#TypeDesign #Typography #Lettering #FontDesign #VernacularTypography #TypefaceDesign #GraphicDesign #TypeSpecimen #LetterForms #CustomType #GoogleFonts
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Just published a case study on our site about how Ghanaian street poster lettering became a Google Font. David Abbey-Thompson's work on Ga Maamli is a brilliant example of preserving vernacular design digitally, making it worth sharing for anyone interested in how culture shapes typography.
#TypeDesign #Typography #Lettering #FontDesign #VernacularTypography #TypefaceDesign #GraphicDesign #TypeSpecimen #LetterForms #CustomType #GoogleFonts
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A market stall of wooden signs, letters, numbers and other things, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011
#PhotoMonday #photography #FotoMontag #WoodType #type #typography #LetterForms #Lettering #design #GraphicDesign -
A market stall of wooden signs, letters, numbers and other things, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011
#PhotoMonday #photography #FotoMontag #WoodType #type #typography #LetterForms #Lettering #design #GraphicDesign -
HBD Darius Wells born 26 April 1800 Kingsboro, NY. He invented the router—a lateral revolving cutting tool—to make the first machine cut wood types. 1st specimen catalog in 1828 co. became D. Wells & Co in 1835 & Wells & Webb in 1839.
He was an active abolitionist, and ran a “station” on the underground railroad in Patterson, NJ helping enslaved humans make their way north to Canada to live as free humans.
#WoodType #router #letterforms #typography #design #bibliography #archives #libraries
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HBD Henry P Hamilton born 21 Apr 1862 youngest of 3 brothers, worked with older brthr George at _The Detroit Record_ as a printer & then with oldest brthr James at Hamilton & Baker, later Hamilton Mfg Co Credited patents USD37308 & 37309
http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/hamilton-mfg-672-673#WoodType #letterforms #typography #archives #libraries #collections #bibliography #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #TypeHistory #letterpress #type #design #history #NineteethCentury #19thCentury #patents #uspatents
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Amazing crowdsourcing project by Richard Ardagh @richardardagh documenting the phenominal Type Archive in London. Stunning, handsome, pretty, luxe, erudite…pick your adjectives! Typographers, historians, siblings-in-ink check it out, and definitely consider supporting the project so it can make it’s way into the world.
https://vol.co/collections/type-archived
______#typography #letterpress #letterforms #archives #libraries #collections #bibliography #history #design #NineteenthCentury #19thCentury
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Loving these unintentional glyphs
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came across this vision of the future by Dwiggins: The Five Hundred Years: A Time Problem (1941)
looking forward to a "century of awakening", but hope the "machine horde" doesn't get us first.
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came across this vision of the future by Dwiggins: The Five Hundred Years: A Time Problem (1941)
looking forward to a "century of awakening", but hope the "machine horde" doesn't get us first.
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Join #DynamicFontDay 2023!
Pushing boundaries of Devanāgarī type design
[email protected], @motaitalic, BERLINDevanagari letters have a rich history, but technological limitations have hindered their digital evolution — until recently. #OpenType, #Unicode, and widespread internet use in #India have opened up new possibilities. Now is the perfect time to explore and innovate with these #letterforms and push the boundaries of #Devanagari #typedesign.
visit: https://dynamicfontday.com
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Join #DynamicFontDay 2023!
Pushing boundaries of Devanāgarī type design
[email protected], @motaitalic, BERLINDevanagari letters have a rich history, but technological limitations have hindered their digital evolution — until recently. #OpenType, #Unicode, and widespread internet use in #India have opened up new possibilities. Now is the perfect time to explore and innovate with these #letterforms and push the boundaries of #Devanagari #typedesign.
visit: https://dynamicfontday.com
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The power of context
🎸uitar Center
Olive 🎸arden
🎸ilmore 🎸irls
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“This is a huge effort that makes no economic sense. It makes no business sense,” Ive says. “The only sense, the only way you can resolve why we’re doing this, is because we think it’s important and we care. And do we care for us? No, we actually believe that it’s a service to culture.” #design #letterforms
After Apple, Jony Ive’s LoveFrom is doubling down on craft in typeface https://www.fastcompany.com/90888571/jony-ive-spent-the-last-4-years-perfecting-his-typeface-heres-why-hell-never-be-done
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“This is a huge effort that makes no economic sense. It makes no business sense,” Ive says. “The only sense, the only way you can resolve why we’re doing this, is because we think it’s important and we care. And do we care for us? No, we actually believe that it’s a service to culture.” #design #letterforms
After Apple, Jony Ive’s LoveFrom is doubling down on craft in typeface https://www.fastcompany.com/90888571/jony-ive-spent-the-last-4-years-perfecting-his-typeface-heres-why-hell-never-be-done
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John Gaines Cooley was born on 30 Jan 1819 in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was a printer & publisher from the age of 16. In 1852, he bought the wood type mfg concern of Edwin Allen, in South Wihndam, Conn. and ran production there until moving it to NYC in 1863. In 1869, William H. Page (a Cooley employee 1855–56) purchased the wood type portion of Cooley & Dauchy. Cooley retired to his country home in Norwich & passed away 7 April 1909. #TypeSpecimen #WoodType #LetterForms #OnThisDay
