Andy Crewsdon's beloved Lines and Splines blog site will long be missed by those interested in typography and type (in both historical and contemporary...
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Imke Lewis
petrarchpress
Oct 4, 2002 12:56 am
Dear list, once again I am relying on your help and expertise.. Does anyone know where to find Emerson type? And secondly does anyone know the website or email...
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Katie Harper
ktnharper
Oct 4, 2002 1:32 am
I'm not sure I can answer your questions satisfactorily, but I will try, at least in part. I don't know of Emerson Type, but I believe that the residual fonts...
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flywheel@...
keyboarder98284
Oct 4, 2002 4:45 am
Dear Imke American Type Founders no longer exists. They were auctioned off back in 1993. Many of the mats they carried were bought by the junkmen for ...
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Michael Peich
peich@...
Oct 4, 2002 1:39 pm
... Hi Imke, I don't know who still casts Emerson, but I have a fair amount of it at the studio and have used it to print a few chapbooks. Once upon a time Pat...
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John Risseeuw
John.Risseeuw@...
Oct 4, 2002 4:27 pm
It seems to me that Harold Berliner was casting Emerson in the 80s and we bought our Emerson from him. I've heard that he's casting again, occasionally, one...
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Paul W. Romaine
promaine2
Oct 4, 2002 6:27 pm
Imke, Emerson is a Monotype type based on Joe Blumenthal's proprietary "Spiral" type for his press of the same name. The major MT casters like M&H should have...
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Katie Harper
ktnharper
Oct 4, 2002 7:33 pm
A while back, there was a discussion on this list about scanning either grayscale or color artwork and using Photoshop tools to turn the image into really...
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Gerald Lange
bielerpr
Oct 5, 2002 5:36 am
... Katie The thread ran in and out from message 775 into the early 800s with a follow up or two. I believe what you are inquiring about was Mark Attwood's...
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Gerald Lange
bielerpr
Oct 5, 2002 6:29 am
Katie A bit further comment on this: I don't trust in the notion that a high resolution scanner alone will do the job for you, the higher the better, etc., and...
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Fritz Klinke
nagraph81433
Oct 7, 2002 11:49 pm
Emerson is an English Monotype face and was not cut or cast by ATF. We do have the cast type that was left on the shelves at ATF at their demise in 1993, plus...
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daddyyaddy
Oct 12, 2002 9:40 pm
BASF Mini I table top plate size 9.5 x 13 inches. contact: Peter Koch 510 849-0673...
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bookman90035
Oct 14, 2002 12:49 am
Hello All, current work required the investment for a 24 x 30 Unit, so we have our trusted custom build 16 x 20 Exposer Unit for sale. Build solid from...
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Gerald Lange
bielerpr
Oct 14, 2002 8:50 pm
... new
> version was announced at the ATypI typography conference just concluded i= n ... Brian Thanks for letting us know about this. The new Sabon looks...
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Gerald Lange
bielerpr
Oct 14, 2002 8:58 pm
Brian Another quick question somewhat related to my very recent post. I received the Indie Fonts specimen catalog from P22 and in reading the info in the back...
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Fontdr@...
drtype2001
Oct 15, 2002 3:18 am
You are not in violation of any law if you don't sell your modifications under the original name. Bob Trogman Facsimile Fonts...
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Brian Allen
allenprinter
Oct 16, 2002 12:37 am
Gerald - Yes, there is a reworked version of Optima in the works from Linotype. It has been shown at 2 type conferences now, and I thought I'd see it at their ...
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Michael Barnes
mjbarnes2002
Oct 16, 2002 1:13 am
Platesetters are taking over from film imagesetters, so some day it may be as difficult for letterpress printers to get hold of negatives as metal type. Unless...
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Imke Lewis
petrarchpress
Oct 16, 2002 1:28 am
Dear List - is there a good source for concise description of the different vandercook models - especially the early ones and the SP-15? Or if anyone would...
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Ky Wrzesinski
kylianw
Oct 16, 2002 4:07 am
I believe it still would be illegal to modify the font. When the font was purchased, you implicitly agree to the terms of the licensing agreement. By ...
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Fontdr@...
drtype2001
Oct 16, 2002 2:28 pm
Question: Is the use of Fontographer illegal? Many modifications are possible and are they illegal? The laws of governing modifying fonts are different in the...
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knharper@...
ktnharper
Oct 16, 2002 4:17 pm
To those who set type in metal (I do from time to time): I'm needing to order enough accented characters to do some typesetting in French and Spanish. I'm...
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Gerald Lange
bielerpr
Oct 17, 2002 2:47 am
... I'm not sure how much Congress was involved with the alphabet and copyright issues. But type design has been long considered an industrial practice rather...
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Fontdr@...
drtype2001
Oct 17, 2002 3:22 am
Try MacKenzie & Harris site on the internet. They have a large collection of Monotype Faces for casting....
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Gerald Lange
bielerpr
Oct 17, 2002 6:01 am
... I think you might mean M & H Type (?) at http://www.m&htype@... Haven't heard the foundry referred to MacKenzie & Harris for many years. I...
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Katie Harper
ktnharper
Oct 17, 2002 1:00 pm
All this talk about copyright of fonts and how broad or narrow the protections, brings up another aspect. What about type designers and what happens to their...
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Peter Fraterdeus
pfraterdeus
Oct 17, 2002 2:05 pm
Katie Good questions all! I've been in the digital type biz since 1987, when I released Prospera and started my "Alphabets, Inc." (www.alphabets.com) Prospera...
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Gerald Lange
bielerpr
Oct 17, 2002 7:09 pm
... Imke Over the years Vandercook put out a lot of information on their presses. Most of this is now quite fugitive. The only online source for information...
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Katie Harper
ktnharper
Oct 17, 2002 7:50 pm
Does anyone have experience with colorizing parts of an image using Photoshop's Spot Color Channels, and then exporting to Quark for separations? I cannot get...
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Fritz Klinke
nagraph81433
Oct 18, 2002 6:36 am
Hal Sterne, one of the former owners of Vandercook and NA Graphics, has been working on a history of Vandercook and I will be assisting him this winter in...
