#TypeTuesday

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Typography Tuesday

Zuzana Licko

Here are some of the many typefaces Slovakian-American designer Zuzana Licko (b. 1961) has created for her digital type foundry Emigre, which she founded in 1985 with her business partner and husband Rudy VanderLans in Berkeley, California. These type specimens are from the The Emigre Catalog, published in Sacramento, California in 1999. Emigre's fonts have received numerous awards, including a 1994 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, a 1997 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and the 29th New York Type Directors Club Medal in 2016. When asked how she judges the validity of a new or experimental typeface design, Licko responded:

Design is about creating something new each time we approach a problem, even if it’s the same problem. . . . Thus, the “same old solution” tends to become boring over time and leads the audience to lose interest. In addition, new technologies and environments arise to present new problems for the designer to address. The most successful experimental typeface designs are often those that address the new needs of a new, yet unchartered technology.

Licko maintains a simple definition of a typeface: "the ornamental manifestation of the alphabet. If the alphabet conveys words, a typeface conveys their tone, style, and attitude."

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Fantasy serif type with abundant alternate characters toggleable via Caps Lock; rough style may be taxing on setups, use with caution.

Link: https://l.dailyfont.com/k5F4h

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Typography Tuesday

We learned yesterday that the Providence Public Library (PPL) offers a competitive college student type design award called the Updike Prize (named after Merrymount Press proprietor David Berkeley Updike, 1860-1941). This year's deadline is September 5. This is so great!!

We further learned that the Daniel Berkeley Updike Collection at PPL, which opened to the public in 1937, was begun in 1910 at Updike's suggestion with the purchase of over a thousand duplicate books from the St. Bride Library in London, with Updike contributing generously to the fund drive that enabled the library to make the purchase. After his death, Updike bequeathed his personal collection of books on printing to the library.

Today the collection contains, among other things, over 7,500 volumes, with hundreds of type specimen books from the 16th century to the present, and a set of punches and two sets of matrices for Updike's Montallegro and Merrymount types. WOW!

We present below just a few of the previous design winners and their winning designs.

2023 Updike winner: Clara Cayosa, Montallegro (Revival). A page from The Life of Michelagnolo Buonarroti, a book set in Updike's Montallegro, compared with Clara Cayosa’s digital revival of the metal type.

2021 Updike winner: Corinne Ang, Fluoral.

2017 Updike winner: Erica Carras, Raleigh Condensed.

2016 Updike winner: June Shin, Ithaka.

2016 Updike winner: Sandra Carrera, Picara.

Design students: get your applications in!

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Updike Prize Reminder

Our first Updike Prize news is that it took a while, but our 2023 prize winner Clara Cayosa is finally in possession of the trophy. Clara was out of town for the award ceremony, but we made the handoff at an unofficial award presentation recently. If you’d like to be the next person receiving the trophy, now is the time to be working on your typeface. The deadline for submissions is September…

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From: The decorator and furnisher. New York : E. W. Bullinger, 1882-1898

NK1700 .D5 Dec. 1886

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Which letter are you today?

We're kinda feeling like that 'W'...

From a Collection of designs for letters and monograms, by J.M. Bergling.

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Argesta by Atipo Foundry / @atipostudio

Argesta is a powerful neoclassical serif font family with high contrast. The ideas for this font has a wide range of reference, from vintage, classic, until the modern era, making it the perfect typeface for an understated, modern, sophisticated look. Stylistically, Argesta is directly inspired by haute couture and it is well-suited to classy branding identity, magazine design, or for luxury product packaging design.

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Typography Tuesday: A Love Story

Today begins the first installment of A Love Story. This scrapbook tells of the courtship, engagement, and wedding of Rose Sheuerman of Des Moines, Iowa and Charles Aarons of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The couple were married in 1905.

We hope you will enjoy this thoughtful scrapbook and the early 20th-century typography and illustrations that help to tell the tale. Keep watching for next week’s installment where we learn about the hardships of sustaining a long distance relationship by post.

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Happy left handers day to us, fellow lefties! :) © @nomadunicorn

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Lead type in black letter font for #typetuesday.👌🏼 #type #letterpress #blackletter #font #antique #handtools #toolsofthetrade #stilllifephotography #nofilter #photography #bookish #inspiration #eidolonhouse

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great typography

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Typography Tuesday

Here are some pages from Flowers & Flourishes by the noted British book designer John Ryder (1917-2001), published in London by The Bodley Head for Mackays of Chatham and printed at Mackays in 1976. The book displays all the decorative flowers, ornaments, rules, and typefaces held at the printing house of Mackays, prepared to mark the centenary of their foundation in 1875. Since 1999, Mackays has been part of the CPI Group of printers. The type display pages were designed by the eminent wood engraver and illustrator Yvonne Skargon (1931-2010).

View some wood engravings by Yvonne Skargon.

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It’s #TypeTuesday again! We’re featuring another image from our current exhibit, Designed, Displayed, & Discarded: Ephemeral Printing in Alton, Illinois, 1835-1855. This advertisement for daguerreotypes includes printed hands, oftentimes called an index or a manicule, which point to and emphasize certain parts of the text. Hand-written manicules gained popularity around the Renaissance, when readers would draw hands pointing to parts of the text they wanted to highlight. Today, the index symbol is considered a standard typographical feature. Come see these manicules, currently on display at the RBML until May 31, 2018. 

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#TypographyTuesday: Nicolas Jenson's roman types are among the most influential typefaces ever produced. This example shows the blank space left for the addition of an ornamental initial by hand.⠀ ⠀ PA4373 .V6 1478⠀ ⠀ #nicolasjenson #romantype #typography #incunabula #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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From: Brydson, Thomas. A summary view of heraldry. Edinburgh : Printed by Mundell & Son, 1795

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These embossed letter specimens are examples of Boston Line Type.  Boston Line Type was developed in 1835 by Samuel Gridley Howe as a raised letter system of printing for the blind. Reading it tactilely, however, was difficult and the embossed alphabet was eventually abandoned for a simpler dot system. 

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[Collection of samples of raised-letter line types for printing for the blind]

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Playing with gradients tone color🎶🎵 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #balibillydesign #youaretypography #typosters #typegoodness #typematters #typefacedesign #typographyinspired #ampersand #type #typography #typedesign #typeface #typographyinspired #typetuesday #typographyinspiration #thedailytype #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #design #designer #font #fonts #fontdesign #fontfoundry #goodtype #creative #typespire #typegang #typematters #letters (at Bali) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLyr_aFHA2k/?igshid=alywn93io3vd