typographical proposal
I wonder if professors would object if I appended a short blurb on the typeface at the end of my essays. that brief hit of typographical history at the end of a book is invariably one of my favourite sections.
I guess that would require me to write some essays, though. maybe I will just hand in an unsolicited history of caslon. or perhaps futura.
p.s. when is that helvetica movie coming out?
2 comments:
That would be awesome! I bet they would totally love it if I did that at library school . . . I could use historically appropriate fonts for book history essays e.g. when writing an essay about a printer, use a font that he invented. For example, Didot, invented by an eighteenth century Parisian printer of the same name!
(John and Rosie are going to make fun of me hardcore for this post).
if I ever decided to start a collection, I think it would be of letterpress letters. I think I would focus on metal but I would accept wood too. perhaps I will start with some typography books. the type founderies always seem to have very colourful pasts so I am sure they would make for invigorating reads. "revival of the fittest," concerning the digitization of classic fonts, sounds particularly lively.
I do not know why john and rosie would make fun of you. perhaps they are jealous because they are not studying typefaces. I am sure jealous, let me tell you.
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