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Typography Weekly #56
Suggested By Riccardo Sartori
Dom Sylvester Houédard: Typestracts
An exhibition in London showcasing the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924 – 1992), a Benedictine monk who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London. Known simply as dsh, he was a pioneer of Concrete Poetry (typewriter art), wrote extensively on new spiritual approaches to art and was an authority on the Beat movement. His abstract visual poems, known as ‘Typestracts’, were A4 in size and typed on an Olivetti Lettera 22.
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Rosetta releases Avory by Sláva Jevčinová
“Avory is a gently condensed sans that challenges convention. Inspired by the lettering work of Czech designer Jaroslav Benda, a lesser known treasure of mid-century graphic design. From there it developed into a full-fledged typographic power tool.”
www.rosettatype.com
Suggested By Riccardo Sartori
The Weird Words and Phrases Designers Use to Test Their Fonts
For designers of type, creating the characters is only part of the job. Much of the hidden engineering and heavy lifting comes in fine tuning how letters, ligatures, digits, and punctuation work together in combination—and kerning the whitespace between them. Many type designers have favorite words and phrases which they use to assess and stress-test some of the more unusual letter sequences.
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