“Letters are things, not pictures of things”

Man, that’s some beautiful type!

My typography prof worked for a company (boutique might be a better word) that did very cool limited edition books on letterpress. I disagree with Kristensen - I don’t think this sort of thing is going away, no matter how good digital delivery of large amounts of text gets.

(TJIC, we should see if they let folks drop in and visit - they’re in Allston)

(via Drawn)

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4 Comments

  1. erica
    Posted August 22, 2007 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

    Woah, that’s the etiology of the term “out of sorts”? Awesome!

  2. dff
    Posted August 22, 2007 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

    I was actually kind of surprised - I thought all modern English that wasn’t invented by Shakespeare was invented by the British Navy…

  3. jmd
    Posted August 23, 2007 at 10:23 am | Permalink

    Actually their appears to be some debate on the subject-
    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-out1.htm

  4. Anton Sherwood
    Posted August 31, 2007 at 12:43 am | Permalink

    That’s a use of the term Maltese cross that I haven’t heard before. The term is often misapplied to the “Iron” cross paty; for a real one, refer to the Order of Malta.

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