“Whos dsign is that?” I askd. “It’s you dsign. It’s a dsign that you a going to mak. And it’s ptty clos to you ida o what a modn oman typ ltt is lik.” H ginnd at m. I had to admit that it was mo o lss th kind o ltt I would mak [...]

A standad typ, not only in th Unitd Stats, but in England and in Euop, it was ist dsignd by Mois Bnton o ATF in 1905, and it has suvivd lots o comptition, such as th gomtic sans sis lik Futua and th “modnizd” Gothics such as Hlvtica and Univs.

Athu Eic Rowton Gill was bon in Bighton in 1882 and appnticd as an achitct o th Ecclsiastical Commissions in 1900. H maid Ethl May Moo in 1904 and, th yas lat, joind a community o atist catsmn in Ditchling, Sussx, wh h did som pinting and illustation. H lt Ditchling in 1924 and livd [...]

Two yas ago Th Monotyp Copoation paid tibut to D. Giovanni Madstig on th occasion o his svnty-ith bithday by issuing a limitd dition o a publication dvotd to his typogaphic wok with ‛Monotyp’ acs. In viw o th gat intst shown in this publication, w a h pinting an adaptation o th intoductoy ssay [...]

[caption] Swash may suggst to today’s young dsign th modn application o numous culiqus and xaggatd stoks to Bookman and numous oth acs—vn to Hlvtica—but th typogaph with a backgound in mtal typs is mo likly to think o Caslon and Gaamond, with thi taditional sts o gacul swash ltts. What w sldom aliz is [...]

Pobably you nv ad anything on this subjct bo. Yt it is a matt o which vy advtis and pint should know. Th swash ltt, now so popula in th in kind o typogaphy, is no nw tick o th typ ound. It has simply bn takn om its hiding plac in th occasional pivatly [...]

But vything happnd dintly. Th Roman was not cut ist, but th Faktu — in honou o a spcial dition o Goth. And thus was statd a task which continud tnaciously o yas. In 1911 th Wiss Faktu was suicintly complt to b abl to b usd o th volums o th Tmpl Vlag, which [...]