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americaisdead · 8 months

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beverly hills. august 2023

#tag christof #america is dead #chesterfield #cigarette #typography #americana #blackletter #leica m

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misterveeare · 2 months

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A loving compliment

#mystuffs #artists on tumblr #hand drawn #art #digital art #typography #lettering #Hand lettering #caligraphy #caligrafia #blackletter #Chicago artist #vee lettering

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typefacetournament · 5 months

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ROUND 1 - BLUE GROUP

Propaganda under the cut.

Courier: "The kerning, the round letters are oh so round and the hard edge ones have great lines. It’s also a serif font which makes it immediately gorgeous in my eyes. Also, it has the best capital Q and E in my opinion. And one last piece of propaganda. Is that its my specialest little guy so. Please."

Blackletter: "It is the first printed font ever. It was the one used by Guttenberg."

#round 1 #courier #blackletter

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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Typography Tuesday

BLACKLETTER

Blackletter, also called Gothic, was the first typographic form to be founded in metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-fifteenth century. The first book printed in English was in blackletter, as was the first book printed in England (both by William Caxton; the first printed in Bruges in 1473, which was also the very first book printed in Bruges, and the latter in Westminster in 1476). It is called blackletter because its narrow, condensed forms produce a darker appearance on the page than do Roman fonts. By the late 16th century, most Western national printers had dropped blackletter in favor of the arguably more readable Roman-style fonts, except for some Scandinavian countries which held onto blackletter forms until the late 18th century, and Germany being the last holdout until 1941.

Blackletter fonts are still used today, however, as display faces, for ceremonial use, and for certain kinds of emphases. That’s certainly how Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) would have used it at his De Vinne Press in New York. These examples come from Types of the De Vinne Press, published in New York by the De Vinne Press in 1907. Theodore De Vinne founded his press in 1883. He was also a co-founder of the prestigious Grolier Club and one of the leading commercial printers of his day, whose enterprise had a profound influence on American printing and typography. This book was intended as a promotional specimen book “for the use of compositors, proofreaders, and publishers,” to demonstrate the wide variety of typographic possibilities that could be available to their clients.

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #Typography Tuesday #Blackletter #Gothic type #Theodore Low De Vinne #De Vinne Press #Types of the De Vinne Press #book history #20th century type

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lexiklecksi · 5 months

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The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows,— The birds, they make it in the spring, At night’s delicious close.

Between the March and April line— That magical frontier Beyond which summer hesitates, Almost too heavenly near.

It makes us think of all the dead That sauntered with us here, By separation’s sorcery Made cruelly more dear.

It makes us think of what we had, And what we now deplore. We almost wish those siren throats Would go and sing no more.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

Thanks for submitting this beautiful poem by Emily Dickinson. It is a bit too long for me to write. Because it worked so well last time, let's turn this into a collaborative calligraphy piece! Every calligrapher writes two verses, then tags another calligrapher to continue it until the poem is finished. I'm tagging @noctuamagna to continue!

#calligraphy #communal calligraphy #calligraphy practice #poetry #collaboration #poetry collaboration #blackletter #lettering #my calligraphy

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lojsa · 7 months

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IAMX

#iamx #calligraphy #каллиграфия #inspiration #music #blackletter #blacklettercalligraphy #gothic #gothicscript #calligraphypractice #calligraphyart #fraktucalligraphy

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slavnder · 1 year

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#calligraphy #calligrapher #blackletter #fraktur #dracula #literary quotes #literary quotations #bram stoker #bram stocker's dracula

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renegade-hierophant · 4 months

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The Lord's Prayer in Biblical Czech (bibličtina), based on spoken Czech of the 16th century. I copied this from my great-great-grandmother's Bible printed in 1863.

#schwabacher #fraktur #blackletter #czech #bible #lord's prayer #language #linguistics #philology

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lil-tachyon · 1 year

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Logo Design Variations for a long-festering personal project

Anyway, very proud of this one. Really different from what I normally draw. I'll probably do at least one more iteration though. I want it to be a little bit goofier and the majiscules are basically ripped off directly from ones I saw online that I don't think are public domain

#calligraphy #fraktur #blackletter #logo design #fantasy art

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studio--io · 1 month

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