Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Semplicit? 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/