I like to think that Old English blackletter was nicknamed “text” as shorthand for “textura” or “textualis”, the academically preferred appellations for this style. But I still find “English Church Text” humorously inappropriate for this engraving of relatively light broad-nib capitals surrounded by pointed pen swashes.
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This is a rather ugly fraktur type specimen from Hamilton. The weights of the letters are inconsistent—just look at “Movable” in the first line. The routing is inconsistent across sizes—just look at how a changes across the three sizes. I’m not sure if that means they used multiple patterns or just didn’t care about the quality in 1884. And that five looks like it was carved by hand!
This is a mostly beautiful type specimen. It’s a shame that the typesetters let the drop cap crash into the H like that.
Beton Medium type specimen
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Intertype’s Caslon fonts are shown in this type specimen.
Hobo was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and released by ATF in 1910. Featured beneath is Hobeaux Rococeaux, which was designed by James T. Edmondson of the Oh No Type Co. You should go buy it. Or read about how James designed it.
This attractive type specimen features Linotype’s Caslon 3 and Gingham fonts in advertising.
This is Lucas Sharp’s new typeface Sharp Grotesk. Lucas has an incredible eye for detail and an ability to remix design genres. Sharp Grotesk is like a hidden object game full of ideas from American wood type, Frutiger’s Univers, geometric sans types, and typewriters. I wish I had time to just look at it all day, picking out the little details.
I just finished scanning this old type specimen and found pages of Typositor type at the end. The Typositor was a machine that allowed designers to set their own display type instead of paying a typesetting shop to do it. So it seems odd that a typesetting shop would have offered this as a service.
Opening Fontlab 7.
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