10-24-2019, 09:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-24-2019, 09:41 AM by Espermaschine.)
(10-24-2019, 08:31 AM)carmen Wrote: Are the fonts really hand-made? One of my standing troubles is finding fonts to match first edition covers of books more than 30 years old, and once (for two books) I concotted the font myself... fair to pass, if nothing to write home about.
Pretty sure there werent that many typefaces in the 40ies. At least compared to today.
Just think about how many new fonts we got in the last ten years, just made by guys with a computer and software.
My dad was a decorator and was trained to paint posters for advertising by hand with a quill.
He had a big A5 cardboard folder with sheets in it that showed how to construct a specific font.
He would draw lines with a pencil, then sketch the letters and later trace with ink and quill.
It took days and one mistake and he had to do it all over again...
Sadly that folder is now in possession of a dragon and when i was younger i wasnt that interested in the subject, so all i have is that memory.
But i remember a big chunk of those typefaces were fraktur typefaces (blackletter/gothic), which didnt impress me very much at that time.
A lot of type from the 60ies to 80ies came from Letraset sheets you had to rub down on paper.