TYPO Labs 2017 | Frank E. Blokland & Lukas Schneider
How archetypal patterns can improve (the production of) digital type In the practice of the present-day type designer there is quite some emphasis on technical matters. Actually, this emphasis was also already the case more than 500 years ago. For the production of roman type in Renaissance Italy, Humanistic handwriting was adapted to a fixed standardized and even unitized system for the production of textura type that was developed by Gutenberg and his peers.
How archetypal patterns can improve (the production of) digital type In the practice of the present-day type designer there is quite some emphasis on technical matters. Actually, this emphasis was also already the case more than 500 years ago. For the production of roman type in Renaissance Italy, Humanistic handwriting was adapted to a fixed standardized and even unitized system for the production of textura type that was developed by Gutenberg and his peers.