Posts Tagged ‘Caslon’

Initials for Flavor

posted on 31 December 2009, under history, instructional, typefaces.

[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 [...]

Tags: , ,
No Comments | Read the rest of this entry »

The Origin and Use of Swash Letters

posted on 30 December 2009, under history, instructional, typefaces.

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 [...]

Tags: , , ,
No Comments | Read the rest of this entry »