loving this description of old english/gothic typefaces...
...the design has become associated in the commonplace mind with the concept of merrie england, a mythical time when people in ruffs ate hugely of the boars head and roast swan served in a battlemented castle, a destination reached by stagecoach...
letters scanned from vol 54 of the penrose annual - 1960
12/2/08
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment