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Tag Archives: Shakespeare Press Museum
Designing a monogram font
Years ago I made a reproduction-quality proof of a type font in the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly. This font is comprised a sets of three letters that can be assembled into monograms. Monograms were quite popular for business … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Typography
Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Monogram font, Monograms, Shakespeare Press Museum
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Lining Livermore, der zweite Teil
This is a continuation of a blog I wrote two days ago. To read the first part, click here. After I put all the letters (called “glyphs” In typography) into a master Adobe Illustrator document, I built the destination environment for the … Continue reading
Posted in Software, Technology, Typography
Tagged Antique type, ATF, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, FontLab, Shakespeare Press Museum, type design, Type Network
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Drawing the Lining Livermore font
Deep in the recesses of the back room of the Shakespeare Press Museum at California Polytechnic State University is a cabinet. It contains about 20 drawers of hand-set metal type. We never use this type because it is difficult to … Continue reading
Electronic motor control
and my obsession with a 1935 bookbinding machine
This is the second part of my obsession story. To read the first part, please click here. And that’s where my odyssey began. Alternating current induction motors use the frequency of the line power (60 Hz in our case) to … Continue reading
Running the five-color
Pearl press postcard
Last year I began the restoration of an 1895 Pearl press, a treadle-powered letterpress that was donated to the Cal Poly Shakespeare Press Museum. That press was a rusty machine when we took delivery of it. I took it to … Continue reading
Reminiscences of a prepress guy
I am an old prepress guy. I owned one of the first PostScript service bureaus in the U.S. I was there at the beginning. It was painful, but overall it was a great business. We had been traditional typographers, and … Continue reading
Prince Bold made Neue
Every really cool font eventually comes out in a “neue” version. The most famous is Helvetica Neue, which was the modernized version of Helvetica, with its normalized weights and corrected curves and very subtle curve changes. Prince Bold is based … Continue reading
Posted in Art, New technology, Typography
Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, letter forms, letterpress, Raymond Prince, Shakespeare Press Museum, type design, wood type
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Printing on a 126-year-old press, and loving it!
I am engaged as a human printing engine this week (and next). The president of our university and his wife want a letterpress Christmas card this year, so have engaged the design and production forces at-hand to produce these cards. … Continue reading
You wanted kerning! You get kerning!
Last week I promised to write a blog about the next step in making my Lining Livermore typeface. I thought I was farther in the process than I was. Getting letters to fit adjacent to each other is a difficult … Continue reading
Drawing the lozenge for Lining Livermore
…continued from yesterday’s blog I’m probably never going to need the lozenge character in any typographic project I do. Nonetheless, it’s there, ready for me, whenever I choose to use it. That’s exciting. The lonely lozenge. I don’t know what … Continue reading