Mrs Eaves was designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996. It is a transitional serif typeface designed as a revival of the Baskerville typefaces. ![]() In 2007, Adam edited the Polish edition of Robert Bringhurst’s “The Elements of Typographic Style”. Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville (17061775) of Birmingham, England, and cut into metal by punch cutter John Handy. The typeface that I received for this project is Mrs Eaves. He teaches at universities in the UK, USA, Germany, Poland, and Russia. typeface Baskerville better now in terms of historical origins and anatomy.Two things I learn form the project was firstly, that some typefaces. Good advice.īased in Berlin, Adam Twardoch works as product and marketing manager at FontLab as well as multilingual typography and font technology consultant for MyFonts and other clients. Stormtype Baskerville, of course,” says František. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the printing type. 1 2 Bodoni's typefaces are classified as Didone or modern. John Baskerville was an English printer working in the. Bodoni ( / bdoni /, Italian: bodoni) is the name given to the serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (17401813) in the late eighteenth century and frequently revived since. How much Baskerville is in Štorm’s Baskerville 10? A lot. These typefaces are more abstract, with sharper serifs and a more vertical axis. BASKERVILLE, with its well-considered proportions and design, its methods of thickening or thinning parts of a letter, and its sharper and more horizontal. He much rather created a beautiful, lively and very practical text family for all sorts of text work. Štorm admires Baskerville’s letter for its “sober elegance and clear design” and attests to its “character of a gentleman.” While this respect for the English master is clearly visible in this adaptation, Štorm by no means slavishly followed the historical specimens. The newest addition to the family is Baskerville 10, a set of four OpenType fonts with pan-European Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets. What started almost ten years ago as an “analytical transcription” (as Štorm calls it) of Baskerville’s 14-point roman and italic from the early 1760s, has now become a solid yet versatile text family in three optical sizes. One such project is his Baskerville revival, done in collaboration with another Czech designer, Otakar Karlas. But every now and then, Štorm steps on a more refined, humble path. ![]() In some cases, his idiosyncrasies are taken to the extreme (Biblon, Serapion), making his faces expressive and inimitable. Throughout all his work, František has been constantly applying a vibrant, individual style to the letterforms he draws. One of the country’s most prolific digital typefounders is František Štorm. ![]() When it comes to the number of type designers per capita, the Netherlands can be challenged by only a few countries - but the Czech Republic is a close runner-up.
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