Typography Tuesday
WHITTINGHAM INITIALS
The Whittinghams, Charles the Elder (1767-1840), who founded the Chiswick Press, and his nephew and successor Charles the Younger (1795–1876), were among the finest English printer/publishers of the 19th century, noted especially for the quality of typographic design and evenness of printing. Their firm was also the chief printer for bookseller/publisher William Pickering, whose own devotion to quality was exemplified in his use of Aldus Manutius's anchor & dolphin printer's mark, combined with the motto Aldi Discipulus Anglus (Aldus's English Disciple).
Many of the distinctive, wood-engraved initials the Whittinghams used were designed by Charles II himself along with his artist daughters Charlotte and Elizabeth, almost all of which were engraved by English book illustrator and wood engraver Mary Byfield (1795-1871). The Whittingham initials shown here are from the 1896 Grolier Club publication, The Charles Whittinghams Printers by Arthur Warren (1860-1924), which itself is printed by one of the finest 19th-century American printers, Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914), who printed the book on handmade paper in an edition of 185 copies. Our copy is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff, a Grolier Club member.
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From: The decorator and furnisher. New York : E. W. Bullinger, 1882-1898
NK1700 .D5 Dec. 1886
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Which letter are you today?
We're kinda feeling like that 'W'...
From a Collection of designs for letters and monograms, by J.M. Bergling.
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Argesta by Atipo Foundry / @atipostudio
Argesta is a powerful neoclassical serif font family with high contrast. The ideas for this font has a wide range of reference, from vintage, classic, until the modern era, making it the perfect typeface for an understated, modern, sophisticated look. Stylistically, Argesta is directly inspired by haute couture and it is well-suited to classy branding identity, magazine design, or for luxury product packaging design.
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Happy left handers day to us, fellow lefties! :) © @nomadunicorn
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Sharing some fan art on this life belt Sunday! By @rzl.sdk. Rizal is a Lettering Artist based in Bandung, Indonesia 🇮🇩. #Repost @rzl.sdk ・・・ @goodtype , Drawingpen ❌ digital 🔥 . . . Mockup by @dimazfakhr_ . #tyxca #typographyinspired #typography #letteringindo #handlettering #lettering #typegang #typespire #typeyeah #typetuesday #typehand #typematters #art #goodtypetuesday #goodtype #kaligrafina #belmenid #hurufraktur #handmadefont #designinspiration #design #moderncalligraphy #artoftheday #goodtype #strengthinletters https://www.instagram.com/p/BnhBHfalPpX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16hkjiylwhjvp
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Lead type in black letter font for #typetuesday.👌🏼 #type #letterpress #blackletter #font #antique #handtools #toolsofthetrade #stilllifephotography #nofilter #photography #bookish #inspiration #eidolonhouse
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Playing with gradients tone color🎶🎵 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #balibillydesign #youaretypography #typosters #typegoodness #typematters #typefacedesign #typographyinspired #ampersand #type #typography #typedesign #typeface #typographyinspired #typetuesday #typographyinspiration #thedailytype #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #design #designer #font #fonts #fontdesign #fontfoundry #goodtype #creative #typespire #typegang #typematters #letters (at Bali) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLyr_aFHA2k/?igshid=alywn93io3vd
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It’s #TypeTuesday again! We’re featuring another image from our current exhibit, Designed, Displayed, & Discarded: Ephemeral Printing in Alton, Illinois, 1835-1855. This advertisement for daguerreotypes includes printed hands, oftentimes called an index or a manicule, which point to and emphasize certain parts of the text. Hand-written manicules gained popularity around the Renaissance, when readers would draw hands pointing to parts of the text they wanted to highlight. Today, the index symbol is considered a standard typographical feature. Come see these manicules, currently on display at the RBML until May 31, 2018.
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#TypographyTuesday: Nicolas Jenson's roman types are among the most influential typefaces ever produced. This example shows the blank space left for the addition of an ornamental initial by hand.⠀ ⠀ PA4373 .V6 1478⠀ ⠀ #nicolasjenson #romantype #typography #incunabula #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt
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Typography Tuesday
We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.
Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992.
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From: Brydson, Thomas. A summary view of heraldry. Edinburgh : Printed by Mundell & Son, 1795
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These embossed letter specimens are examples of Boston Line Type. Boston Line Type was developed in 1835 by Samuel Gridley Howe as a raised letter system of printing for the blind. Reading it tactilely, however, was difficult and the embossed alphabet was eventually abandoned for a simpler dot system.
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[Collection of samples of raised-letter line types for printing for the blind]
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#TBT: a Lloyd Reynolds datebook, written almost entirely in calligraphy! #Repost @reedspecialcollections ・・・ Lloyd Reynolds was an English, Creative writing, and Art instructor at Reed from 1929-1969. Reynolds learned calligraphy through personal research, and through his informal calligraphy classes influenced generations of Reed students, faculty and graphic artists. This datebook (all in calligraphy!) is one of many of Reynolds’s we have in the archives. #typetuesday #typography #reedspecialcollections #reedlibrary #lovereed #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram
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