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[mildmayfoxe]

the tuesday again dog always reminds me of this sign i did in 2019 referencing it for soup season at my old coffeeshop job

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Typesetting on a Winter's Afternoon

This week we present selected page spreads and cover from Stan Nelson's Typesetting on a Winter’s Afternoon, printed in Liberty, Wisconsin by Michael Koppa in 2018 at his Heavy Duty Press in a limited edition of 26 copies signed by the author and printer.

In the late winter of 2018, after a three-year effort, Mike Koppa completed printing the text of letterpress printer, type founder, and type and printing historian Raymond Stanley Nelson, Jr.’s lyrical essay Typesetting on a Winter’s Afternoon, with Koppa himself setting type, we're sure, on many a winter’s afternoon. Nelson's essay was originally published in Parenthesis No. 3, May 1999, but Koppa had received a copy of the text in a letter from Nelson in 1998, when Nelson was Curator of the Print and Graphic Arts Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

Nearly 20 years later, Koppa edited the text with Nelson’s permission, setting it in 10 pt. Century Oldstyle (designed by the prolific Morris Fuller Benton, a Milwaukee native, and one of Koppa’s favorites), with 4 pt. leading, and titling in 18 and 36 pt. Huxley Vertical. The text was printed on Zerkall Laid paper and a translucent Neenah Classic Crest UV/Ultra II. The use of the translucent paper offers a text block that cascades dimensionally through the book’s pages, mandating a particular cadence to the reading. The book also features subtle typographic prints representing recurring elements in the story: a window, a clock, and winter depicted as persistently falling snow using six-pointed asterisks printed strategically in ultra-ultra-light translucent blue on the verso of every page.

The book also includes three, not-so-subtle vintage cuts where certain emphases are required: “They were BOLD and vigorous”; “Bad letters, over-inking and poor design”; and “Attention requested.” The signatures were Coptic-sewn, and in the early months of 2019, Koppa created the 26 one-of-a-kind, non-adhesive covers that the book slips into. Each unique cover is made of pages from the 1923 Specimen Book and Catalogue of the American Type Founders Company, which included a specimen of the Century Oldstyle used in this Heavy Duty Press printing.

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"sedia di una estate" (2016)

acrilici e segni a matita su vecchia sedia - "SEDUTE"

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^ he would never change his pfp twice within a week

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And that’s a wrap folks 

Stellar job as always Shipwrecked Comedy 👏

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This ones ancient...

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just watched the headless bloopers and WHY DID THEY CUT THE SCENE WITH DIEDRICH AND OLDSTYLE???? LET DIEDRICH SAY BITCH!!!!!

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Yes, this is SHE

Oldstyle

30 years, bisexual

Oldstyle is the Old Timey Moustache's daughter and she's an aspiring Time Traveler. Since childhood, she dreamed of traveling through time, flying a time machine and wearing a steampunk costume. As a result, she began to work for Father Time and Unikitty hires her for various cases whenever possible.

Some infos:

Her best friends are Croissant and Q-12.

She prefers chocolate, lollipops and toffee more.

She sewed her own suit (including the hat), only the boots were originally different, but she modified them.

The two moles under her eyes are real.

Father Time allowed Oldstyle and some employees not to comply with the uniform dress code at work, since she initially did not know that time travelers don't dress (and didn't dress) in steampunk suits, but he appreciated this concept.

Her hairstyle is partially similar to her dad's mustache.

She often works in pairs with a guy in black clothes and "absolutely black" shades.

Her color palette and costume are partly inspired by Vill-V from Honkai Impact 3rd.

+funny bonus

(She got into the past to poke this jerk's stomach, after which her colleague and Father Time himself got carried away with it)