Pick a Peck of Points by Glenn Fleishman
Slides from Glenn's presentation to the North City Tech Meetup Group on July 6, 2020. Pick a Peck of Points: Many measures of digital type owe their origins to late-19th century changes in metal type design and manufacture—and a type foundry fire that led one firm to make changes that reverberated throughout the industry. Point sizes, a common baseline, character widths, and more originate before 1900, but still prove useful in digital design, whether for screen or print. Glenn Fleishman digs into type history and ties it into our present day in his talk. Typefaces, fonts, graphic design impact us all perhaps more than you realize. Glenn’s presentation should be a glorious romp through type history up to modern times. Glenn Fleishman writes about modern technology and printing history from his home in Seattle. He's a senior contributor at Macworld and writes for the Economist, TidBITS, Fast Company, and many others. Glenn has written dozens of editions of books in the Take Control series. He's currently building 100 tiny type museums.
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- 1. Glenn Fleishman • glog.glennf.com • Take Control of Zoom & other titles @ takecontrolbooks.com Pick a Peck of Points How 19th Century Standardization Keeps on Truckin’ maybe even double truckin’
- 3. From James Craig’s Designing with Type (1980), as reproduced in a blog entry by Paul Shaw.
- 8. Imagining, as we do, that the moulds of the first printers were of a primitive construction, and, though conceived on true principles, were adjusted to the various sizes of letter they had to cast more by eye than by rule, it is easy to understand that founts would be cast on no other principle than that of ranging in body and line and height in themselves, irrespective of the body, height and line of other founts used in the same press.
- 16. Since I began these articles [about standard units] a new American foundry, the Inland, has started, and its types are all to systematic line. The long suffering printer may cry Eureka! I do not know that, in this detail, their system can be improved. Will the other foundries also fall into line?
- 23. Glenn Fleishman glog.glennf.com Take Control of Zoom & other titles @ takecontrolbooks.com The Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule & Six Centuries of Type & Printing tinytypemuseum.com