Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Rogers’

The Origin and Use of Swash Letters

Posted on 30 December 2009, 2:05 am, by Typocurious, under history, instructional, typefaces.

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 [...]

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“The Economy of Scarcity” by Carl Purington Rollins

Posted on 18 August 2009, 2:05 am, by Typocurious, under history, instructional.

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 [...]

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