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Typography Tuesday

Before the holidays on December 16, the Milwaukee Public Library held its third Art Book Club session, a informal art book appreciation gathering that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation Department of the Central Library. The theme for this meeting was "Technology" and there were all manner of beautifully-designed technology books to peruse and ogle over. It was an immersive experience, and of course I was particularly pleased to spend time with the type specimen books.

This week I highlight one of those books, Specimen Book Linotype Faces, published in Brooklyn, New York by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1939. The typefaces displayed here are:

Century Bold, designed by Milwaukee-born Morris Fuller Benton in 1900.

Gothic No. 13, by Morris Fuller Benton ca. 1900.

Franklin Gothic, designed by Benton in 1903.

Metro Light, designed by W. A. Dwiggins in the early 1930s.

Garamond No. 3, originally designed for American Type Founders by Morris Fuller Benton in the late 1910s and licensed to Linotype's American branch around 1936.

Memphis, originally designed for the Stempel Type Foundry by Rudolf Wolf in 1929.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

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Understanding This Book, 2023

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Franklin Gothic Typeface Specimen Poster I made for my Typography class.

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Franklin Gothic Font

Franklin Gothic is a delicate and clean sans serif font that was created and shared by URW Type Foundry GmbH. The typeface continues to be seen in many high-profile situations, from books to billboards, was featured on the cover of Lady Gaga’s second album, The Fame Monster, is the official typeface of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and was even the resident typeface of the PBS series The…

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Wednesday Addams - Addams Family Values (1993)

Kim Diamond - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Nancy Downs - The Craft (1996)

Elvira - Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

Lydia Deetz - Beetlejuice (1988)

Eric Draven - The Crow (1994)

Vampira (Vampire Girl) - Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

Morticia Addams - The Addams Family (1991)

Edward - Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Angela Franklin - Night of the Demons (1988)

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The final 20 miles of Dalton Highway—to Deadhorse, AK

Taken June 2023

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Sir John thinking bear wife is his worse nightmare but then he eats human meat and she suddenly turns into this, staring at him with a deafening silence:

Anyways...human!bear wife redesign... I 🫀 my sir john lives au bdbbdhdhdhdjjckdks I 🫀 you creepy human bear wife

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Maura watched the strange man freeze in place in front of her. He no longer seemed as spectral as he had been mere seconds ago. Now it was he who looked as if he was watching a ghost.

The Spirits of Prometheus Asylum: An 1899 Victorian Gothic AU

(Raw images: not mine)

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robin newman from ace attorney thinks about crime in franklin gothic.

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Typography Tuesday

MIKE KOPPA AT HEAVY DUTY PRESS

Do you ever wonder what letterpress printers do when they’re not printing type? Do they go fishing, play with their kids, hang out at the local coffee shop with friends, practice with the band? Yeah, many do. But sometimes when they’re not printing type, they’re also having fun cleaning and playing with their type!

Case in point: our good friend, Wisconsin graphic designer, letterpress printer, stonecutter, radio personality, and collage and book artist Mike Koppa has been posting on his Tumblr site @mrkoppa about the joys of just being with type. He writes:

The process of bathing an entire case of 10 pt Franklin Gothic Condensed began a few days ago. . . .  Used the old fashioned method of tying up blocks of type with string (something I have always enjoyed) and found that string holds up quite nicely when submerged in mineral spirits. . . .  the type is not tied so tightly that the mineral spirits cannot sneak between the sorts, which leads to tedious line-by-line wiping down of type bodies before transferring it all back to the galley.

Quite an affair but worth the effort. . . . The type cleaning and organizing bug is infectious.

But this process leads to a book idea: why not print this type as it is and create a series of page spreads? Which leads to the next idea: “let’s get down to business and fill up the bed, and if the 24 pt doesn’t fill it up, well, then might as well clean and tidy up the 18 point, too.”  What a type nerd!

Let’s not go licking those fingers now, Mike!

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2 November 2023 | Der Klubhaus

Work(s) in progress. Here we are seeing type that is set but not printed for Understanding This Book, folios printed late last winter for the same title, and the prototype for UTB, along with the basic idea for a miniature accordion-fold book titled Hail, Holy Queen, which will feature a collage recently posted here, made from prints of drawings by JoAnna Poehlmann. These projects are top priority for the next 30 days, attempting to complete them both in time for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair, which is December 9-10, only three months earlier than expected. Not especially happy about not having all winter to work on these projects, but so much of the way things go is out of one’s own control, so we have no choice, really, but to roll with it.

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Denise Agency

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Masterpost

now for only the small small price of 4.99 !!

upload schedule is whenever the fuck we feel like it <3 /hj

hmmm there's a pattern to these chapter titles that only 0.05% of people can figure out !! 😱 can YOU 🤨 guess what it is 🤔🤯💥

general cw: swearing, plenty of discussion around death

prologue

Abrupt Awakenings [cw: experiences that can be likened to dissociation, panic attacks, and hallucination(?)]

Beings from Beyond

Cracking Composures

Doctor, Doctor [cw: suicide attempt, implied child abuse/neglect, family member death, brief descriptions of blood and injuries]