For decades now, typographic sorts that were unavailable on typewriters have been available to everyone on digital devices. We’ve always had hyphens, but now we can also use dashes. Hyphen: joins elements of compound nouns and modifiers: ne’er-do-well, cure-all,...
Here’s an illustration of how early printers marked the space for hand-lettered versals (‘drop caps,’ or enlarged initial letters). The John Rylands Library in Manchester, England, has a few copies of Dante’s Commedia, printed in Venice by Octavianus Scotus in 1484....
Indulgence form printed by Guttenberg (Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel) “Since the eleventh century, indulgences and pardons had been awarded by the Church for the remission of sins, earned either by prayer or through donations. An indulgence took the form of a...
Reproduction of a reproduction of a rare Baskerville specimen broadside. A full-size reproduction of the rare 1777 edition of John Baskerville’s specimen broadside from the collection of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem Holland, was reproduced in John Dreyfus’ The...
Graphic artists often need high quality logos for projects. Go-to sites for corporate logos would be seeklogo.com and Brands of the World, but there’s a fallback method. Find vector logos inside pdfs Vector images are often embedded in pdfs. A quick search of a...
Guidelines for email signatures: Text only is predictable and consistent Avoid logos, social media image-links, photographs, etc Avoid HTML formatting—some recipients may only see text Quotations are not necessary and may look unprofessional Images, logos, social...
