12/2/08

answered the old gentleman with a courteous bow

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

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