Fine Print, Volume 7S. Kirshenbaum, 1981 |
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Page 32
... letter , not the machine ; the changing angle of a slanted roman , for instance , can be linked to subtler changes in counters and serifs . METAFONT draws letters by moving " pens " - patterns of black- along smooth curves . This method ...
... letter , not the machine ; the changing angle of a slanted roman , for instance , can be linked to subtler changes in counters and serifs . METAFONT draws letters by moving " pens " - patterns of black- along smooth curves . This method ...
Page 47
... letter appropriate to the covers of the book . I did the visual spacing between letters and lines by hand by cutting out the Antigone characters in thick card and placing them on a book dummy so that the quotation would read from left ...
... letter appropriate to the covers of the book . I did the visual spacing between letters and lines by hand by cutting out the Antigone characters in thick card and placing them on a book dummy so that the quotation would read from left ...
Page 52
... letters made for the italic , and it must be said that they prettify the text only at the expense of comfortable reading . Swash letters were made for the roman too ; they can be seen in the Enschedé specimen books of 1930 and 1932 ...
... letters made for the italic , and it must be said that they prettify the text only at the expense of comfortable reading . Swash letters were made for the roman too ; they can be seen in the Enschedé specimen books of 1930 and 1932 ...
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