November 2008
30 posts
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Type Notes: 6
“The text of Superbad was set in a digitized version of Arcimboldo, a typeface long attributed to the Italian engraver and silversmith Paolo Arcimboldo, who lived in Parma in the first half of the eighteenth century. … Arcimboldo’s entire typographical oeuvre is limited to Arcimboldo and a second face, Ciottolo, which consists of pebbles arranged in a shallow bed of sand and...
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“REAL TIME, REAL WORLD, TO SCALE: This typeface began organically, with the popularisation of e-mail. Such symbols as :) came to stand for those things that words couldn’t quite get at. Over time, every idea had a corresponding symbol, not unlike the drawings from the dark caves of early man. These symbols approximated what a word described better than a word ever could. (A picture of...
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“The text of this book is set in Rubberfab, a typeface designed by W(allace) A(ddison) Moody for the Menlove Linotype Company and first made available in 1949. Rubberfab cannot be classified as either “old style” or “modern.” It is not based on any historical mold and hence does not echo any particular period or style of type design. It attempts nothing, in fact, and...
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“No alphabet comes along full-grown. A period of development is required for the individual letters to bloom and then another period for them to adjust to their place in the entire set, and sometimes this period can be a few weeks or it can be a lifetime. No quality font maker ever sat down and wrote out A to Z just like that. Getting Ray Bold right required five months, these last five...
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“The Text gets one rounded scoop of dry food in the morning (around 9 - he might wake you up earlier, but just ignore him if you can), and one scant scoop plus half a can of wet food at night (9 pm). Please mix the dry and wet together a little or he’ll just eat the wet and leave the dry.”
Stacy Grenrock Woods “A Note on the Type” from the novel I, California
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“Most of the text of this book was set in Backslap Grotesque Italic Semi-Detached, a variant of Bangalore Torpedo Moribund adapted in 1867 from a matrice by the Danish chiseler Espy Sans, a character if there ever was one… Backslap is a solid citizen and a joiner: A.A., A.A.A., AARP, Christmas Club… That part of the text not set in Backslap or Bangalore—the lowercase d’s,...
“I think that fiction writing which does not acknowledge the uncertainty of the...”
– W.G. Sebald
“Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we’d still...”
– Soulja Boy (via fimo)
“We’re debating [whether to build] a rail line out from our national...”
– Robert Lang, urban planner
WatchSen. Dip Dopson Apologizes
While I and many of his other constituents appreciate the gesture, a number of questions remain unanswered:
Can you ever really apologize enough for claiming you would like to “marry your Mommy”?
Does Sen Dopson really not know that the center of the moon is in fact filled with Picasso sketches?
Why is lonelysandwich not allowed to ask his question?
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Excited
I posted a hot Craigslist M4M ad a year and a half ago. Looks like I might finally have a taker! Fingers crossed …
