High-quality #ebook scan (600dpi, decent lighting) of the specimens and catalog of nearly all of the American Type Founders’ company’s #fonts in 01923. Includes many exquisite examples of the art of text layout as well as font design. Includes Caslon, Bodoni, Garamond, Cloister (after Jenson), and some others, as well as #Goudy. By David M. MacMillan and Rollande Krandall (“Circuitous Root”).
Probably “divert your course 15 degrees north to avoid collision!” “No, divert your course!” never happened, but at least three lighthouses have in fact been hit by ships.
#Gorton #fonts catalog from 01952, used in numerous pantograph engravings all around us all the time. Kindof ugly tho. They apparently licensed the font originally in 01895, long before the fashionability of sans-serif fonts.
Marcin Wichary, Figma design directory, wrote this #Gorton #fonts page, tracing the current letterforms (more or less) back to 01902! Then it spread to Leroy lettering sets and Wonder Woman comic books and Letraset rubbings... and #Hershey-fonts! It originated at Taylor, Taylor, & Hobson in the UK in 01894, four years before Akzidenz-Grotesk. 6100 words, 600 photos. #history
#history of #fonts and #typography
#Waymo cars just sat dead blocking streets yesterday because there was an electrical blackout. #RISKS
more about #Hershey-fonts and their #history, including a drafting textbook from 01865 with a “technical lettering style” quite similar to #Gorton
#video on copper #materials #safety mistakes accidentally producing N₂O in a runaway reaction. Also changing copper hydroxide’s color from green to blue by dropping the pH, and then converting it to blue vitriol in the obvious way.
#video on #Hershey-fonts #history from Frank Grießhammer’s presentation nine years ago in 02016
#ebook of Frederic W. Goudy’s Elements of Lettering from 01922. #fonts
#Franlab #video on using a Leroy lettering set (with #Gorton #fonts) and drafting pens
#EEVblog #video reviewing an Alientek DM40C multimeter with trend chart and a 50MHz oscilloscope and stuff. It looks fucking amazing. #electronics #toread