... is also written “&c.” I think that in English, it could safely be used in headlines and other display ... but it’s right there in the Cyrillic keyboard layout is it not? It would be great to see in Russian or in Spanish fanciful ... in ads. I’ve always associated ampersands with advertising/commerce for those reasons, particularly when they’re ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 9:57pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... he was one of Frederic Goudy ’s first pupils. In 1927, his famous book Layout in Advertising was published. He was one of design’s first ...

Wiki - paul d hunt - 16 Apr 2008 - 1:19pm - 0 comments

... read Stanley Morison’s opinion about setting italics in uppercase? I don’t care if the slope is as backwards, as backwards as ... remember doing it. I only remember it being there on my layout pad. ’When I looked at the lettering there was a feeling that ...

Forum topic - pierattt - 16 Jan 2006 - 1:50pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

... designers to understand where those long lists of fonts in their machines come from. I just wish they were some more of that didactic ... have the design mind or skills to add true charater to a layout, so a novelty/display face allows them to ’paint on the ...

Forum topic - sebsan - 19 Aug 2005 - 5:24am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Has anybody done this yet? Contextual replacement in OpenType using Kerning as the context. I would like to offer a version ... using FontLab for my substitutions. I do all my OpenType Layout work in MS VOLT. How did each of you decide? How did each of you ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 1 Nov 2005 - 8:36am - 89 comments - 1 attachment

... the letter is drawn, its basic shape, comes to the fore in the absence of concerns about serif shapes & directions, and stroke ... begins with such a g is not sealed off, sort of like a layout that has a picture that looks off page left. The standard binocular g ...

Forum topic - londontype - 31 Jan 2006 - 2:21pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... during his translation of Jost Hochuli’s Detail in typography from the original German, which Agfa-Compugraphic published ... Jan Tschicold, which are nicely done. Ruari McLean was layout Ruari McLean was layout artist and typographer for the boy’s ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 3 Apr 2006 - 8:42am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... each project. The list has nothing really to do with layout: that is, I haven’t put in anything about leading or sizing or H&J settings, etc. This is purely ...

Forum topic - jason - 8 Jun 2005 - 10:19pm - 58 comments - 0 attachments

... floating around 4 mm. Any suggestions? - Four column layout - Five column layout ‹ Potential problems with ... What kind of friendly headline fonts did you have in mind? Currently, I have Minion has my headline, and Utopia as my body ...

Forum topic - editor - 6 Mar 2006 - 11:23am - 20 comments - 0 attachments

... firms I had worked on a nice amount of type setting and layout but I have noticed most of my freelance work has not been text heavy. My ... project basis. Since I would like to start working more in this field, I want to quote an excellent price. But I don’t want to be ...

Forum topic - PL - 28 Mar 2006 - 10:15am - 3 comments - 0 attachments