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[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992. 

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta #or Model Book of Calligraphy #Georg Bocskay #Joris Hoefnagel #illuminated manuscripts #manuscripts #manuscript facsimiles #facsimiles #calligraphy #letter forms #letters #J. Paul Getty Museum #Imprimeries Reunies #Christopher Hudson #Ferdinand I #Rudolph II

[curiouscatalog]

From: The decorator and furnisher. New York : E. W. Bullinger, 1882-1898

NK1700 .D5 Dec. 1886

#interiordecoration #window #artglass #vases #woodwork #wallpaper #velour #pattern #1880s #late19thcentury #typography #typographytuesday #typetuesday #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraryofva

[librarycompany]

Which letter are you today?

We're kinda feeling like that 'W'...

From a Collection of designs for letters and monograms, by J.M. Bergling.

#typetuesday #tattoo tuesday #typo #initials #monograms #specialcollections #mood #benslibrary

[literepedegeaba]

Argesta by Atipo Foundry / @atipostudio

Argesta is a powerful neoclassical serif font family with high contrast. The ideas for this font has a wide range of reference, from vintage, classic, until the modern era, making it the perfect typeface for an understated, modern, sophisticated look. Stylistically, Argesta is directly inspired by haute couture and it is well-suited to classy branding identity, magazine design, or for luxury product packaging design.

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#literepedegeaba #font #fontforfree #fontfriday #freebie #freedownload #freefont #goodtype #type #typedesign #typeface #typefaceforfree #typegang #typematters #typetuesday #typography #atipofoundry #serif #neoclassical #highcontrast

[uwmarchives]

Typography Tuesday: A Love Story

Today begins the first installment of A Love Story. This scrapbook tells of the courtship, engagement, and wedding of Rose Sheuerman of Des Moines, Iowa and Charles Aarons of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The couple were married in 1905.

We hope you will enjoy this thoughtful scrapbook and the early 20th-century typography and illustrations that help to tell the tale. Keep watching for next week’s installment where we learn about the hardships of sustaining a long distance relationship by post.

#uwm archives #typography tuesday #scrapbook #1900s #love story #keepsake #wedding #marriage #courtship #engagement #archives #artifact #typetuesday #Milwaukee #train #owl #manicule #printer's fist

[evelything]

Happy left handers day to us, fellow lefties! :) © @nomadunicorn

#lefthanded #lefthanders #lefthandersday #lefty #lefty mancini #lefties #type #typetopia #typetoday #typetuesday #typographylove #ilovetypography #graphicdesigner #itsnicethat #eyeondesign #typedirectorsclub #zurdos #adobeillustrator #typedaily

[goodtype]

Sharing some fan art on this life belt Sunday! By @rzl.sdk. Rizal is a Lettering Artist based in Bandung, Indonesia 🇮🇩. #Repost @rzl.sdk ・・・ @goodtype , Drawingpen ❌ digital 🔥 . . . Mockup by @dimazfakhr_ . #tyxca #typographyinspired #typography #letteringindo #handlettering #lettering #typegang #typespire #typeyeah #typetuesday #typehand #typematters #art #goodtypetuesday #goodtype #kaligrafina #belmenid #hurufraktur #handmadefont #designinspiration #design #moderncalligraphy #artoftheday #goodtype #strengthinletters https://www.instagram.com/p/BnhBHfalPpX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16hkjiylwhjvp

#repost #tyxca #typographyinspired #typography #letteringindo #handlettering #lettering #typegang #typespire #typeyeah #typetuesday #typehand #typematters #art #goodtypetuesday #goodtype #kaligrafina #belmenid #hurufraktur #handmadefont #designinspiration #design #moderncalligraphy #artoftheday #strengthinletters

[eidolonhouse]

Lead type in black letter font for #typetuesday.👌🏼 #type #letterpress #blackletter #font #antique #handtools #toolsofthetrade #stilllifephotography #nofilter #photography #bookish #inspiration #eidolonhouse

#eidolonhouse #photography #antique #blackletter #type #letterpress #font #inspiration #stilllifephotography #toolsofthetrade #bookish #nofilter #handtools #typetuesday

[balibillydesign]

Playing with gradients tone color🎶🎵 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #balibillydesign #youaretypography #typosters #typegoodness #typematters #typefacedesign #typographyinspired #ampersand #type #typography #typedesign #typeface #typographyinspired #typetuesday #typographyinspiration #thedailytype #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #design #designer #font #fonts #fontdesign #fontfoundry #goodtype #creative #typespire #typegang #typematters #letters (at Bali) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLyr_aFHA2k/?igshid=alywn93io3vd

#balibillydesign #youaretypography #typosters #typegoodness #typematters #typefacedesign #typographyinspired #ampersand #type #typography #typedesign #typeface #typetuesday #typographyinspiration #thedailytype #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #design #designer #font #fonts #fontdesign #fontfoundry #goodtype #creative #typespire #typegang #letters

[illinoisrbml]

It’s #TypeTuesday again! We’re featuring another image from our current exhibit, Designed, Displayed, & Discarded: Ephemeral Printing in Alton, Illinois, 1835-1855. This advertisement for daguerreotypes includes printed hands, oftentimes called an index or a manicule, which point to and emphasize certain parts of the text. Hand-written manicules gained popularity around the Renaissance, when readers would draw hands pointing to parts of the text they wanted to highlight. Today, the index symbol is considered a standard typographical feature. Come see these manicules, currently on display at the RBML until May 31, 2018. 

#TypeTuesday #Type Tuesday #Manicule #Typography

[muspeccoll]

#TypographyTuesday: Nicolas Jenson's roman types are among the most influential typefaces ever produced. This example shows the blank space left for the addition of an ornamental initial by hand.⠀ ⠀ PA4373 .V6 1478⠀ ⠀ #nicolasjenson #romantype #typography #incunabula #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

#bookhistory #special collections #rare books #mizzou #libraries #books #history #instagram #typography #design #typographytuesday #typetuesday

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #chromatic type #type specimen books #type specimens #initials #type display books #Schriften Atlas #Ludwig Petzendorfer #Julius Hoffmann #Milwaukee Public Library #Art Book Club #19th century type

[curiouscatalog]

From: Brydson, Thomas. A summary view of heraldry. Edinburgh : Printed by Mundell & Son, 1795

#titlepage #scottish #1790s #late18thcentury #typography #type #typeface #typetuesday #typographytuesday #titlepagetuesday #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraryofva

[librarycompany]

These embossed letter specimens are examples of Boston Line Type.  Boston Line Type was developed in 1835 by Samuel Gridley Howe as a raised letter system of printing for the blind. Reading it tactilely, however, was difficult and the embossed alphabet was eventually abandoned for a simpler dot system. 

 commontouch.librarycompany.org

[Collection of samples of raised-letter line types for printing for the blind]

#TypeTuesday #Typography #PrintingHistory #embossedprinting #LCPonline #VCPatLCP #BensLibrary

[reedienews]

#TBT: a Lloyd Reynolds datebook, written almost entirely in calligraphy! #Repost @reedspecialcollections ・・・ Lloyd Reynolds was an English, Creative writing, and Art instructor at Reed from 1929-1969. Reynolds learned calligraphy through personal research, and through his informal calligraphy classes influenced generations of Reed students, faculty and graphic artists. This datebook (all in calligraphy!) is one of many of Reynolds’s we have in the archives. #typetuesday #typography #reedspecialcollections #reedlibrary #lovereed #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram

#reedlibrary #librariesofinstagram #reedspecialcollections #tbt #lovereed #typography #repost #typetuesday #iglibraries

[uwmarchives]

Typography Tuesday: A Love Story, part 2

Here is the second installment of A Love Story. This is a keepsake scrapbook that tells the story of the courtship, engagement, and wedding of Rose Sheuerman and Charles Aarons in early 20th century clippings. A trip to Des Moines and a secluded spot on the porch turns in to long distance correspondence.

Watch for part 3 next week!

This scrapbook can be found in the Aarons-Jung-Sheuerman Family papers, 1850-1992 (UWM Mss 44,  box 6, folder 1)

#uwm archives #typography tuesday #scrapbook #1900s #love story #keepsake #courting #steam train #aarons-jung-sheuerman family papers #rose sheuerman #charles aarons #courtship #archives #artifact #typetuesday #long distant romance