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- Typographica0
Steffmann's personal site is great too. Check out his high-res scans of heraldry of the graphic arts industry.
- Typographica0
"but in Germany - Die Land of Standards?"
Hmm. Are you suggesting they used a stencil?
- Gorbie0
no, what i was trying to imply is that i would have figured that the signage for the u-bahn stations was very uniform, and probably based on a prior design.
but that's just my perception of germans and their previously mentioned standardization obsessions
- Gorbie0
do you notice the different size and weight in the letters 'e' and 'n'
- DutchBoy0
very interesting Typographica..
what unfittoprint is for flash questions, is Typographica for type related matter!
i'd love to suck many more links out of you.. :P
one question:
have you ever heard about:
'Helvetica Flair' ?
i found this in this old book i bought, called
'Duplicata. L'imprimerie, une profession, un art.'
i am curious to find out who made this fancy Helvetica adapt..
- ********0
haha, the return of helvstica flair
- Gorbie0
persistent, isn't he?
:)
- Typographica0
Thanks for the kindness, DB.
I haven't heard of Helv Flair, but I'm not surprised to hear it once existed. One of the many times someone was looking for Bookman Swash on the Typophile ID Board, the great letterer and type designer Mark Simonson came up with this beast:
http://www.typophile.com/forums/…
(Scroll up a couple posts to read the background on the scan.)
- DutchBoy0
haha, flair is everywhere!
i cannot find the cable for my scanner.. grr..
wanted to post a scan of it..
- Typographica0
Awww. Take a macro photo?
- DutchBoy0
there IS a sample online somewhere, as i (as most NT regulars know) had a thread on this some 6 or 7 months ago..
and someone posted it.
somehow when i look for 'helvetica flair' in the PVN Find feature i get only mysql-errors.. :(
- DutchBoy0
ah!
found the thread and bumped it to the top!
(thx to the author feature in find!)
- Typographica0
Yes, I get those two. They gots to repair the search here.
Wish I could talk more swash but I must get to bed. Nite boys.
- Gorbie0
that melior flare is to-oo much!
- DutchBoy0
here it is:
http://www.typophile.com/forums/…
(scroll down for the sample!)
tis late enough here too, nighty night all!
- DutchBoy0
direct link to image:
- ********0
university roman flair=
end of world
- DutchBoy0
*bump*
- rabattski0
that under den linden type is hard to track down. the one that tg pointed out looks very similar but the L is odd though. but it is also a type of typeface used in bookprinting a lot long time ago. pre digital era that is. so there is a chance it does excist digitally if someone took the effort to recreate it. i do agree with tg, it's handpainted but they prolly worked with templates to create unity. the berlin subway system is over 100 years old you know so it had to be done manually. and some signpainters are really good. it's a profession you know. anyways, i mailed a couple of people who might know. if i hear something i'll let you guys know.
- royal6180
Something your mind on the matter...
http://amath.colorado.edu/docume…