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Continue reading →: type specimen photos
For those of my readers who looking at old type and lettering and stuff…I’m uploading the pictures as I go to a flicker album here. Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: type@cooper…homework!
All lowercase of Paramithi is finished! Though some of the letters need work. I can’t print until Monday (it’s better to evaluate the letters on paper and not on screen), so this will have to do for now. I was asked to thin out the letters to see what they…
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Continue reading →: NYC letters #19
“Foreign” scripts printed by William Caslon, 1734AD. Butler Library.
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Continue reading →: type@cooper…day 11
Continuing to make progress on additional letters of Paramithi. My goal is to finish the lowercase and start sketching something for the capitals this weekend. Woo!
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Continue reading →: type@cooper…day 10
My progress on Paramithi today! :) Going to work on the ‘straight’ letters tomorrow. And if there’s time fill in more of the missing letters. Not gonna lie, I’m a little nervous about drawing capitals!
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Continue reading →: NYC letters #17
From the Butler Library. This book, the Epistole Devotissime de Siena, (1500AD) has the first ever printed italic text. This is the fronticepiece, or first (and highly decorated) page.
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Continue reading →: type@cooper…day 9
Today I drew uncial scripts for over four hours. Several styles, trying to get a feel for the letters and how they were created. From there I developed a lowercase alphabet. My goal was to create a font that could be used for children’s storybooks, or fairy tale books. I’m…
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