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You're Just My Type
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Stored in: Utata Discussions
Posted On: August 28 2006
By: Brittney Bush
Photo © helveticaneue
I am a typographer's daughter. When I was a kid and my mother was in art school, she worked part-time for the University doing typesetting, and I lost many a young brain cell to the heady aromas of its fluids. With this sort of upbringing, it's perhaps not too surprising that I became a bit of a typeophile myself.
Nuno Leitao's thread "Beautiful fonts" combines two visual arts by displaying photographs of beautiful letters.
Our resident type guru, pixelherder, even stopped by to give us a little history lesson:
Photo © Karl Randay {pixelherder}
Photo © Nuno Leitao
[The London Underground font] was designed by Edward Johnson in 1916. Edward Johnson was a calligrapher and stone-mason and Eric Gill was his apprentice, which led to Gill establishing himself as a signwriter and type-founder, working on the foundation that Johnson had established. P22 is the type foundry that has the specific font derived from the underground typeface designed by Johnson.
Fascinating stuff! So, my little lettertatans, mind your p's and q's and come read the writing on the thread....
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