Swash may suggest to today’s younger designer the modern application of numerous curliques and exaggerated strokes to Bookman and numerous other faces—even to Helvetica—but the typographer with a background in metal types is more likely to think of Caslon and Garamond, with their traditional sets of graceful swash letters.
What we seldom realize is that there are [...]
Probably you never read anything on this subject before. Yet it is a matter of which every advertiser and printer should know.
The swash letter, now so popular in the finer kind of typography, is no new trick of the type founder. It has simply been taken from its hiding place in the occasional privately printed handmade [...]
Posted on 1 September 2009, 2:05 am, by Typocurious, under
instructional.
Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
PROJECT STANDARDS
Standards means producing [...]
Posted on 30 August 2009, 2:05 am, by Typocurious, under
instructional.
Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
PROJECT FEASIBILITY
In addition to [...]
Posted on 27 August 2009, 2:05 am, by Typocurious, under
instructional.
Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
READERS’ EXPECTATIONS
To issue any [...]
Posted on 25 August 2009, 2:05 am, by Typocurious, under
instructional.
Purpose, readers’ expectations, project feasibility and standards are the four concerns central to the planning of library exhibition catalogues. If these four are addressed successfully, other issues remain incidental. If there is shortfall in any one of these critical zones, no amount of manipulation of the peripherals can disguise the publication’s weakness.
PURPOSE
“What is this all [...]
I used to spend occasional evenings at the Boston Public Library, reading, partly for the pleasure of the contents, patly for the exhilaration of the printing, the books which William Morris had printed at the Kelmscott Press. This was only five or six years after the close of that establishment, and those who have [...]