The complete and unabridged history of western typography by roman bodoni Chapter 26 ZZZ
A couple of my uncles who are in the printing trade would go for that book and it might not be as boring as you’d think at first glance.
In school we learned that unabridged meant that they left in the smutty parts.
He got to Chapter 26?? – before falling asleep?
26 letters, 26 chapters but he’ll get to the last ten, numerical, chapters later.
Whatever fonts those are, they aren’t Bodoni.
prefer Times Roman. Every font reader on the planet knows what it is, and it has the fastest eye to comprehension flow.
Had a real nasty experience setting some special characters with early web dings. As CSS changed, so did the codes, and the ’’font’’ has to be edited and re-edited to keep the original text compatible.
At the start of the book he was in awe of all the different As, but by the time he got to the Fs he was so bored he was cursing.
some books are so boring
Wednesday’s DSotH should be up soon — apologies for the delay.
July 31, 2015
AlnicoV over 10 years ago
A couple of my uncles who are in the printing trade would go for that book and it might not be as boring as you’d think at first glance.
Hugh B. Hayve over 10 years ago
In school we learned that unabridged meant that they left in the smutty parts.
Perkycat over 10 years ago
He got to Chapter 26?? – before falling asleep?
dzw3030 over 10 years ago
26 letters, 26 chapters but he’ll get to the last ten, numerical, chapters later.
bopard over 10 years ago
Whatever fonts those are, they aren’t Bodoni.
prefer Times Roman. Every font reader on the planet knows what it is, and it has the fastest eye to comprehension flow.
bopard over 10 years ago
Had a real nasty experience setting some special characters with early web dings. As CSS changed, so did the codes, and the ’’font’’ has to be edited and re-edited to keep the original text compatible.
Sherlock Watson over 10 years ago
At the start of the book he was in awe of all the different As, but by the time he got to the Fs he was so bored he was cursing.
dontstarveman over 10 years ago
some books are so boring
samuli creator over 10 years ago
Wednesday’s DSotH should be up soon — apologies for the delay.