Member Rya… Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Well, anybody know? Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G Link to comment
Member DTY… Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 From ancient Roman cursive. See, for example, discussion at bottom right and following page of:http://archive.org/stream/romancursivewri00hoesgoog#page/n281/mode/2up For various examples in more formal medieval writing, take a look at:http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/examples/halfuncial.htmhttp://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/examples/visigoth.htmhttp://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/examples/merov1.htmhttp://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/examples/carol5.htmhttp://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/examples/carol4.htm Link to comment
Member qua… Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Reading the Wikipedia article suggests that the single-story lowercase G is not merely a feature of modern sans-serif typefaces, modelled on children's handprinting, but was also found in blackletter. And, indeed, that is the case. Thus, one might better ask: where did the double-storey lowercase G come from? The Wikipedia article also gives an answer to that: in Roman type, it allowed descenders to be shortened. Which doesn't quite explain why it was found in the typefaces of Nicholas Jenson, instead of waiting until American Type Founders came along... Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 I like 'closed tail' and 'open tail' a lot more then 'single story' and 'double story.' The later just seems so modern. I would find it a little hard to believe that Garamond referred to the forms as such (though I don't think her ever produced the open tail variety, am i mistaken?). Link to comment
Member hra… Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Except you can have a binocular "g" with an open tail... In fact that's my favored form. hhp Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 you can have a binocular "g" with an open tail Very open, at times:http://typophile.com/search/google/danish%20g Link to comment
Member jac… Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 As well as a closed tail on a single story. Maybe it's best to just smile and nod. Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 A binocular "g" with an open tail is what's known as a "double story with walk-out basement". Link to comment
Member was… Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I like double story with walk-out basement. I seem to recall a discussion somewhere here on names for punctuation points and such like. When I was an apprentice comp., way back when, we used to call exclamation marks "dogs' willies". Link to comment
Member Nic… Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 We need to know when the first appearance in type was, for the single-storey g in: Serifed italic Serifed roman Sans italic Sans roman Link to comment
Member jac… Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Does that exclude Granjon's Civilité? Link to comment
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