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— Why is The Netherlands so typographical? Because they have a Protestant history?
means sine nobilitatem, not aristocracy. A term for the middle classes who became 'the new riches'.
But they didn't had the cultural background, that was one of the reasons why the victorian age was so powerful
The characters were shiped from the United Kingdom. After the travel the lead was oxidated by the salted sea air and no longer flat.
If you wanted to seduce someone and invite her into your bedroom, this was the oneliner
If we think of a sans serifs we associate them to modernism. In fact they are older then serifs.
In the 15th century people melted their swords in order to make characters. They had to do so, due to the high prices of lead.
Because they used a kind of powder to be as white as possible. The powder contained a lot of lead.
Every woman (and every typographer) had leadsickness which turned their teeth black.
Some types of pears grow upside down.
Moleskine has a patent on this type of binding.
The two horizontal lines create in the middle a black dot.
Mozes was married with an Ethiopian woman. He met her while he was going to the promised land.
Jan Van Eyck painted so detailled, that we can analyse today which disseasses were frequent at that time.
Historybooks tells us that the first roman type was cut in 1470 in Venice (Nicolaus Jenson).
It's doubtful but the name gives us the explanation
There doesn't excist an image of Gutenberg. Because of the national concern they draw an
ideological portet of him.
An inventor has to have a long beard, a turban and a wise gaze...
Gothic cathedrals with their high windows and the vertical lines convened to write high small letters
Sinterklaas was born in Lycië, in the south of Turkey
a cursor was the english term for 'zethaak'
Typographical we indicate a birth year with an asteriks.
There was a time, long before google excisted, when only discriptions of exotic animals were available.
You could get payed in images. You find this renoceros (or the mirror image of it) a few times in Durers work
because he only new that image of the animal.
In France they put a space between the word and the interpunction, that's because the typesetter got paid for the amount of letters set.
In 1920 the DIN was the corporated type of Germany, in 1933 someone decided to change to the fette fraktur
