#type specimens

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[providencepubliclibrary]

Seems like someone needs reading glasses

From O.I. Leman (Moscow) type specimen book, 1914

[rlyehtaxidermist]

to me, Mamizou and Nue are the type specimen for what I call "youkai married". they clearly have their own spheres of influence and places of residence and agendas, but at the same time are willing to drop what they're doing or move across japan to help the other carry out overly complex schemes, fight the ancient hermit that the other's cult dug up, or engage in what even the most freudian topologist to ever ponder orientable surfaces couldn't interpret as human sex

[razzberrysheep]

Cringetober day 8!

[piggiebonez]

vindicated goes so hard easily top5 best iz episodes

[buromarks]

-https://apk-type.com/family/apk-galeria/

[cloning-vat-mistake]

Been thinking abt five after the flux is removed... So here she is on ur screen !

[drawdownbooks]

Harber Type Specimen (A2 version) by Benoît Bodhuin

Harber is a dot matrix design with variable axes for weight, slant, volume, noise, and optical size.

Published by Benoît Bodhuin, 2023

1 double-sided sheet, 5-color Risograph, 16.5 × 23.4 inches Ships folded, dimensions 8.3 × 11.7 inches

[tinyzoologist]

I am once again catching myself getting sentimental about species descriptions... The sheer care and dedication of looking at a tiny little animal long and hard enough to observe every hair, every color facet, every ridge and bump on its body. The act of putting these miniscule details into obscure Latin words, like incantations for others to imagine and compare. The naming of a species - hello, little creature, we see you. You are special to us, here is what we will call you, we even printed a brand new label.

[robin-buckely]

ROBIN BUCKLEY in STRANGER THINGS 4.02 | Chapter Two: Vecna’s Curse

[nilesmoon]

this shot of sawashiro is simply breathtaking to me!!!

like. seeing him crash and burn after hearing that his son has never trusted him, realizing that the chance he took by sending a tip geomijul didn't pay off, that the "miracle" he asked for is too late (just like he is). It truly is something to watch!!

to me, this really is the scene to show how incredibly miserable this asshole is and the cherry on top is how the way he sits is the exact same pose the corpse next to him has got.

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

New acquisition! A type specimen book from New York type foundry George Bruce's Son & Co., 1869. George Bruce (1781–1866) was a Scottish American printer and type founder. He and his older brother started off as type founders and printers in 1812 but jettisoned their printing business in 1816 to concentrate on founding type. His typefaces became widely popular among printers by the 1830s, and his company remained predominant for a generation. His son David Wolfe Bruce (1824–1895) took over the business after his father's death, and ran it until his retirement in 1890. The firm was eventually acquired, like so many other foundries, by American Type Founders.

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[residents-of-spookys-mansion]

obligatory host check-in. how's that ex-vlogger holding up

He’s so done with everyone’s bs

Old man’s definitely the “you damn kids” type

[the-book-design]

You Spin Me Round by – wonderyears.studio

[nishihii]

ranni is not the housewife. YOU are

[undonepal]