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Regards, Don I don't always build models, but when I do... I prefer paper. Keep your scissors sharp, my friends. |
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So, would this be the late '60s, early '70s?
Do you do any letterpress printing anymore, e.g., as a hobby? I assume you don't have a working Linotype machine in your basement. Computerized typesetting is very interesting and you can do a lot with it, but you can't print with fine ink on fine paper with an inkjet or laser printer. That's why I've been working on display-size fonts that I can use for wood- and linoleum cuts. Unfortunately, I can't really see myself carving steel rods for casting 10pt fonts in hot lead. Here are a couple of photos of linoleum blocks with letters that are almost ready for printing, and a block with a drawing including lettering, which is not as far along. The fonts on the blocks with letters are Euler Fraktur and Euler Roman, designed by the famous typeface designer Hermann Zapf and programmed in METAFONT, and I drew the lettering on the drawing freehand. The photos with just letters look better if you zoom out. |
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I worked for the Cornwall Press from mid 1972 to late 1975. I never looked back after I left for what turned out to be my employer until my retirement 9 years ago. The linoleum block work you shared is very impressive.
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Thank you! I've got several other blocks with drawings nearly ready for printing. A couple are on lindenwood plywood and I prefer it to linoleum, though the latter is also good. It will be the first time I've printed anything since I took a class in etching in college. I didn't do very well in that class because I had no drawings that I wanted to print at that time and it seemed rather pointless. One nice thing about wood- and linoleum cuts is that you don't need a press. M.C. Escher used a wooden spoon and I figured if it was good enough for him, it's good enough for me. I had a spoon reserved for the purpose but then I bought a couple of special tools for rubbing the paper. Can't wait to try this out. The attached JPEG file shows something else font-related I've been working on: the very beginnings of my first "3D" font. It's based on Donald Knuth's Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended. |
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My pleasure! I've put the PDF file with the models and the source code (MetaPost and TeX) onto my personal website: Lettering
It's a little rough, since it was just for my own use. I was planning to clean it up and publish it, but I thought I'd just go ahead now, in case you or anybody else here was interested. I can perform any simple changes easily, if anyone needs them. I haven't done this for Euler Roman yet, but it's on my TODO list. I'd sort of gotten away from this project for a while. |
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The American Mathematical Society commissioned the Euler family of fonts from Hermann Zapf for the volume "Concrete Mathematics, A Foundation for Computer Science" by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik. It was never meant for typesetting running text, but only for use as symbols in mathematical formulae. To the best of my knowledge, it has never been used for any other book.
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