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Typography Tuesday

WHITTINGHAM INITIALS

The Whittinghams, Charles the Elder (1767-1840), who founded the Chiswick Press, and his nephew and successor Charles the Younger (1795–1876), were among the finest English printer/publishers of the 19th century, noted especially for the quality of typographic design and evenness of printing. Their firm was also the chief printer for bookseller/publisher William Pickering, whose own devotion to quality was exemplified in his use of Aldus Manutius's anchor & dolphin printer's mark, combined with the motto Aldi Discipulus Anglus (Aldus's English Disciple).

Many of the distinctive, wood-engraved initials the Whittinghams used were designed by Charles II himself along with his artist daughters Charlotte and Elizabeth, almost all of which were engraved by English book illustrator and wood engraver Mary Byfield (1795-1871). The Whittingham initials shown here are from the 1896 Grolier Club publication, The Charles Whittinghams Printers by Arthur Warren (1860-1924), which itself is printed by one of the finest 19th-century American printers, Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914), who printed the book on handmade paper in an edition of 185 copies. Our copy is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff, a Grolier Club member.

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[razzafrazzle]

a woman is an animal

[image description: a page of drawings of fionna campbell from adventure time on a lime green background. in this, fionna is drawn fat with jean shorts, ankle socks and boots, and visible body hair on her legs and arms. on the left is a fully rendered drawing of fionna cheering and running with a determined look on her face. to the left are various simple doodles of fionna, including her sitting on the ground with her arms wrapped around her knees and the caption "the Beast", her looking shocked, and various incredibly simplified blob-like fionnas. the drawing is also littered with small drawings of stars. end id]

[animentality]

I've never read Claymore or anything, but I think it does monster character design better than most manga, or even just, monster media in general, particularly the female monster designs.

not female, but a girlboss nonetheless

[litleo123]

swordfighter peach my beloved

[1071png]

the more zeloses you draw the more i willl love them >:3 he’s my favorite <3

I like Zelos too He got you a cola potion

[venacoeurva]

I hardly keep up with eso stuff but I think every daedra and especially the princes should be freaky and unnerving to some capacity and the new lady looks like an ov*rwatch skin or something :[

[milkbreadtoast]

O BTW i watched the first ep of the dungeon meshi and I RLY LIKE ITTTT ive been meaning to start the manga for yrs but never got around to it TT... trigger seems to be doing rly well w the adaptation tho from what ive heard manga readers say and well just from watching it blind myself i alr rly love it and cant wait to see more...!!!

[babydarkstar]

i miss vi and caitlyn arcane……..season 2 now

[savannah-gonwild]

Everybody want me to be happy but nobody wanna take me to the water 🙄

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Typography Tuesday

Women Type Designers: SANDRA GARCÍA & DAFNE MARTÍNEZ

Sandra García, born and raised in Colombia, and Dafne Martínez, born and raised in Mexico, are young designers based in Mexico City. As part of the 2021 Typographer-in-Residence program organized by the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, they designed the typeface Achtli specifically to improve the experience of learning to read in young children. They write:

We conducted a field study with primary school students between the ages of five and seven who were in the process of learning to read. . . . We also interviewed teachers to understand what difficulties they encountered in teaching the reading process and the use of typography. . . . After analyzing the results, we reached the following conclusions: Typefaces with similar morphological forms make it difficult for early readers to distinguish some characters from others. A typeface with distinct qualities could assist their memory to identify and differentiate them more efficiently. . . . [The Achtli typefaces has] unique, distinctive properties, with moderate contrast, semi serif endings, and slightly flared stems to emphasize the weight on the endings. The warm, modern shapes with fractured, rounded ends give the typeface a bold yet friendly personality.

The name Achtli is the Nahuatl word for “seed,” a metaphor for reading, as learning to read is like a good seed that grows and flourishes. The examples shown here are from Achtli: A Typeface for Early Readers, one of four volumes in the set Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía, a program highlighting the talent and creativity of Hispanic women designers, published in Pasadena, California by the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography in 2022.

Sandra García

Dafne Martínez

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[indeedgoodman]

[church-of-crayak]

something specific that ive noticed abt animorphs is that female characters are not only allowed to have enormous, disfiguring injuries, but they commonly do end up with them and are not treated worse for having them. even rachel in the hall and oates future AU book. you never see that anywhere else! in fact im fairly sure the only female characters who don't at some point get half their faces blown off are two of the moms, nora, karen, and cassie.

hold on. why do all the women get half their faces blown off

[firedragon1321]

Me: *describing a villain*

Brain: Here we go again.

Me: What do you mean?

Brain: *vomits description of crazy lady wearing a space themed dress*

Me: ...This is the third time.

Brain:

[yankoemi]

The Grinch woman from Fake type

Uhhm mans I don't know what the holly is that thing but it appears in the MV of Ryuuseee and with my silly AAA Belphegor woman design.

[juniepops]

you know that like "this is the most butch a woman twitter can handle before they start crying" or whatever but it's like. artists who like to draw women in lingerie and the most "masc"/sporty ones always have that like fitted calvin klein bra and panties combo. if you saw what actual butches call lingerie you'd throw up