[Leica] font news

[Mark Rabiner]

In 1998 a milestone darkroom book came out. The Film Developing Cookbook
by Steve Anchell (Author), Bill Troop (Author)
Steve Anchell came out with some other books and became a key resource who I
wish had come along much earlier as far as understanding darkroom chemistry
was concerned I used to mix stuff up from scratch and modify formals.
But Bill Troop when you checked the internet had a website on typography as
well as darkroom chemistry. He was a duel personality..
I found it interesting that a person who was a chemist would also get into
type. And I thought he was an inspiration. Still do.
By the way Steve Anchell flunked chemistry. He needed Troop.

( Bill Troop) " He has designed several typefaces for Canada Type, including
Busted, Didot Display, Didot Headline, and Semplicità Pro. Earlier typefaces
were released through the now-defunct foundry Precision Type."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Troop

I am a Garamond advocate. I'd read I think that Claude Garamond (ca. 1505 ­
1561), was the beginning and ending of type face designers and design many
think and I took it to heart. I bought it from Adobe and got it in a stack
of floppies with a nice booklet. It was my business identity typeface for
awhile and now is again like on my business card.. I still use the original
poscript version I got from them that they sent people ( Robert Slimbach) to
Dresden or wherever  (Paris?) to look at original manuscripts to  make the
then current version more accurate. As it had gotten totally corrupted.



On 11/5/15 8:51 PM, "Brian Keith Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:

> Thinking that perhaps connoisseurs of fine photographs might also be
> connoisseurs of fine fonts, I thought I'd alert you that Monotype just
> released Gill Sans Nova and is offering an 80% introductory discount.
> 
> http://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/gill-sans-nova
> 
> There are also Nova editions of Joanna and Joanna Sans, which are nice,
> but Gill Sans Nova is spectacular in its quiet British way.
> 
> I've re-set a few old documents from Gill Sans to Gill Sans Nova and you
> can feel the difference even if you can't quite put your finger on it.
> 
> The current liturgical materials published by the Church of England
> (e.g. Common Worship) are all set in Gill Sans. I wonder if they will do
> anything with Nova someday.
> 
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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