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7 unusual facts about Typeface


2D geometric model

2D geometric models are also convenient for describing certain types of artificial images, such as technical diagrams, logos, the glyphs of a font, etc.

Bryan Donkin

In 1813 he and a printer, Richard Mackenzie Bacon of Norwich, obtained a patent for a "Polygonal printing machine"; this used types placed on a rotating prism.

Dubnobasswithmyheadman

It features black and white type that has been "multiplied, smeared, and overlaid" so much that it is nearly unreadable, alongside a "bold symbol consisting of a fractured handprint inside a broken circle".

HyTelnet

This is a typical HyTelnet screen running much as a user would have experienced it, rendered in non-proportional font to simulate a terminal.

Judah Monis

Monis continued to use his handwritten grammar manual, but the unavailability of any Hebrew type for printing presses required that each student copy the entire text by hand, an unpopular job which took up to a month.

MSN Groups

In the WYSIWYG interface there are tools to add pictures, select background and text colours, create tables, emoticons, fonts, paragraphs, text sizes etc.

XFree86 logfile

After the keyboard setup XFree86 locates the path to the RGB database, to the modules and to where the fonts are.


Baskerville House

A sculpture of the Baskerville typeface, Industry and Genius, in honour of John Baskerville stands outside the main entrance to Baskerville House in Centenary Square.

Bauer Type Foundry

Beta (1954, Baum + Bauer), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha.

Bell Gothic

The typeface was used as a display and caption face by Metropolis magazine, by Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau in designing the initial ZONE book series, Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom, and has been widely used by Semiotext(e) Books, the MIT Press, and Dia Art Foundation.

Benton Sans

In developing the typeface, Frere-Jones studied drawings of Morris Fuller Benton's 1908 typeface News Gothic at the Smithsonian Institution.

Bruno Maag

He is renowned in the typographic community for his strong dislike of the typeface Helvetica.

Chancery hand

Zapfino, a digital typeface that simulates an italic chancery hand, designed by Hermann Zapf.

Concrete Mathematics

Donald Knuth used the first edition of Concrete Mathematics as a test case for the AMS Euler typeface and Concrete Roman font.

Core fonts for the Web

It included the proprietary fonts Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files (".exe") for Microsoft Windows and in BinHexed Stuff-It archives (".sit.hqx") for Macintosh.

Dear Miss Lonelyhearts

The typography uses Bodoni, a typeface commonly used by pop stars such as Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey.

FF Dax

The typeface was adopted in the United Kingdom by David Cameron in 2005 as part of the branding for his campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party.

FF Scala

FF Scala used to be the house typeface for the prominent Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad and for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

Eric Gill's 1931 typeface Joanna (released by Monotype Corporation in 1937), with its old style armature but nearly square serifs is also similar in its nearly mono-weighted stroke width.

FHWA Series fonts

By the mid-1990s the FHWA series of typefaces was used as a source of inspiration for a multi-weight print typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones of Font Bureau.

Francis Thibaudeau

His book, La lettre d'imprimerie (The Letter of the Printing Office), was printed in Auriol, a typeface designed by its namesake, George Auriol and reflecting typical Art Nouveau design.

GE U28CG

The yellow and black separation lines between the red and silver were absent, and the bodyside 'Santa Fe' lettering was large, billboard-style, in a Cooper Black typeface, instead of the smaller black serif all-caps version previously used.

Greek ligatures

Important models for this early typesetting practice were the designs of Aldus Manutius in Venice, and those of Claude Garamond in Paris, who created the influential Grecs du roi typeface in 1541.

Henry Russell Sanders

Sanders instituted the distinctive football uniforms worn by the Bruins when he replaced the navy blue jerseys with "powderkeg blue," added the shoulder stripe to give the impression of motion, and changed the number style from block to clarendon.

Ilene Strizver

Strizver was the Director of Typeface Development for International Typeface Corporation (ITC), where she developed more than 300 text and display typefaces with such respected and world-renowned type designers as Sumner Stone, Erik Spiekermann, Jill Bell, Jim Parkinson, Tim Donaldson, and the late Phill Grimshaw.

Italic type

Fonts such as Jan van Krimpen’s Romanée, Eric Gill’s Joanna and Martin Majoor’s FF Seria have italic fonts that only have cursive designs, but not the leans typically associated with italic types.

Joh. Enschedé

Bavo (1939-56, Robert Harling), originally cast by Stephenson Blake as Chisel.

Junicode

Wilson's typeface was used in 1756-1758 for a renowned edition of Homer's epics (the Iliad and the Odyssey), printed by Robert Foulis and Andrew Foulis of the Foulis Publishing House.

Klingspor Type Foundry

Famous type designers like Rudolf Koch, Walter Tiemann and Otto Eckmann worked for this foundry and created well known typefaces like Koch Antiqua, Wilhelm Klingspor, Tiemann Antiqua, Eckmann.

La Cité collégiale

The first was the letter "C" formed with 18 angle brackets, each representing a smaller C. The text "La Cité collégiale" was written underneath it, using the Century Gothic typeface.

Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi

His letterforms were revived in the 20th century by designers such as Stanley Morison, Frederic Warde, Robert Slimbach (for example Adobe Jenson italic) and Jonathan Hoefler (in his Requiem Text typeface.) The italic script presented in La Operina was also revived in the 20th century with Alfred Fairbank's book A Handwriting Manual (1932), Getty-Dubay italic script, and the work of Gunnlauger SE Briem.

Maiandra GD

Maiandra GD is a typeface inspired by Oswald Bruce Cooper's hand lettering for an advertisement circa 1909, which was in turn inspired by Greek epigraphy.

Margaret Lindsay Holton

1980 - Designer of 'Lindsay'(TM) typeface, hand-drawn pencil templates supplied to Letraset England in a license for the dry transfer 'letter' market.

Objectified

the first being Helvetica about the famous typeface and the third and last film being the documentary Urbanized.

Oliver Simmonds

At the top of the main entrance tower is a sculpture of an angel/airman by Eric Gill who designed and created the famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel on Broadcasting House and the typeface Gill Sans.

Retford railway station

Bill Bryson comments of Retford station, in his book Notes from a Small Island, that it is shown on railway maps in a typeface (and large filled circle graphic) marking it as equivalent to much more notable cities in northern England, and he therefore deemed it worth a visit.

Sabon

The result was Sabon, and as a new typeface it was issued jointly by Germany's three main type foundries (Linotype, Monotype and Stempel) and became hugely popular in book and magazine printing.

Slashed zero

In the Fixedsys typeface, the numeral 0 has two internal barbs along the lines of the slash, which can alternately be considered a narrow “S” within the zero.

Speedway LLC

It stated Helvetica italic typeface, has a slash between S part of the name and convey motion and speed, like Microsoft.

Stanley Morison

He was one of the most influential type-designers of the 20th century, having designed the Times New Roman typeface (1931) and several historical revivals for the Monotype Corporation.

The I Tatti Renaissance Library

A typeface named "ITRL", based on the work of Renaissance typographer Nicolas Jenson, was specially designed for the series.

Tortuca

The pocketbook-size shaped magazine has no illustrations on the cover (only the colour changes per issue) and well balanced and coherent typography in the interior with use of the typefaces Bodoni and Garamond.

Verdana

The typeface was nominated for the Best Of British Design Award on BBC Two's The Culture Show on January 26, 2006.

VNI

The VNI Encoding uses two characters to represent one Vietnamese vowel character, therefore removing the need for control characters to represent one Vietnamese character, a problematic system found in TCVN, or using two different fonts such as in VPS, one containing lowercase characters and the other uppercase characters.

William Hamilton Page

Painter's Roman (1870), cut in association with Darius Wells; Adobe's virtual type version is called Juniper.

Zapf

Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer, professor, calligrapher, typographer and husband of Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse


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