#albertus font

[happywebdesign]

IZZA Marrakech

[typefacetournament]

Anywho, Round 4 polls are queued for tomorrow.

Whoops, look who forgot this tournament was running.

[piscesmoonpress]

Finally finished my All the Young Dudes bind!

Written by MsKingBean89 (also @lobsterbang here?), 526,969 words, and too many pages, I didn't count.

So this was my first project with an actual press and i’m overall super happy with how it turned out.

There were some...learning moments while making this set but it was so fun to make all the design choices and I'm in love with how everything fits together. Each bit of chapter art was taken from parts of the marauder's map, and it's based on location (I didn't include them all, but here's the Hogwarts Express, as an example!). The second volume ALMOST didn’t fit in my guillotine, but I managed to squeeze it in. This was also the first time I used a foil quill with my silhouette, and I really love the effect it gives (particularly on the second volume).

Design Details:

Body Font: Adobe Garamond Pro

Titling/Drop Cap: Albertus MT

Title Page: Davison Art Nouveau

I got the end papers and the book cloth from Hollander’s. Davison Art Nouveau is also not around anymore, I don't think, but I fell in love with it after reading this article while looking at 70s fonts from novels and albums. I ended up just pulling it together from images (probably could have made it into a font or something, tho), and I'm so glad I took the time to do it because these title pages are probably my favorite part. All the little designs on the cover, like the stars, are also taken from photos of the marauder's map.

[chicago-geniza]

Today I learned:

Most of the iconic Faber & Faber covers, including their "trademark" Albertus font, were designed by a German Jewish refugee typographer named Berthold Wolpe

Ren faires were a postwar phenomenon, and specifically part & parcel of the midcentury medieval cultural-aesthetic revival; the first one was held in 1963

The Russian word "babki" for cash originated from a popular slang term for 100-ruble notes ft. Catherine the Great's portrait

[dawnleaf37]

the font is albertus nova btw

[kreuzaderny]

The Mystery of the Dune Font

In the six decades since the publication of the original Dune novel in 1965, the science fiction franchise has gone through many different typographic identities. Notable examples include the use of Giorgio for the British paperbacks by NEL (c. 1968) and Albertus for David Lynch’s movie adaptation (1984). But another typeface has even stronger ties to Dune and its author. It appeared on the covers of dozens of books, including the classic Dune trilogy and its sequels, and also on other titles by – or about – Frank Herbert, from various imprints. Strangely enough, the name of this typeface is barely known even among die-hard fans.

[typewolf]

IZZA → Site of the Day for October 28, 2023

Fonts: Albertus Nova, Nitti Grotesk

[dankusner]

Albertus: the Biography of a Typeface, Simon Garfield:

I know it seems like a longshot that a book about a font would be thrilling, but Garfield is such an entertaining, informative and hilarious writer that it’s worth reading what he writes on any subject.

His previous volume about typefaces, Just My Type , was a clever and fascinating look at many fonts that included a witty takedown of Comic Sans, so there’s no question that the British journalist knows his stuff. (Oct. 22)

[decordreamscom]

They have four themes: Coronation, Commonwealth, Diversity, and Sustainability. Graphic design studio Atelier Works has designed four Royal Mail stamps issued to commemorate the coronation of Charles III and Camilla. British artist Andrew Davidson was invited for illustrations. Previously, he created the cover of the monarch's book "Harmony" using woodcuts. Now he was tasked with depicting modern scenes using the traditional method. Each of the stamps is devoted to a separate topic - the obligation of the monarch or what he is interested in. The purple stamp (purple is considered the royal color) depicts the coronation. The Archbishop of Canterbury lowers the crown on the head of Charles III, who is seated on the throne with two scepters in his hands. In the background is Westminster Abbey and fireworks. On the blue stamp is an image on the theme of diversity. Representatives of Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism are drawn. In the background are urban and rural Britain, as well as various religious buildings. An imaginary congress of representatives of the Commonwealth of Nations is depicted in red, and in the background are the Commonwealth Games and various flags of the unification of countries. On the green stamp, Davidson created a graphic representing sustainability and biodiversity: natural landscapes, sustainable farming practices and renewable energy. The composition of each brand resembles theatrical scenery. As you move further away, the color of the ink becomes lighter. The design and printing team worked very hard to achieve the maximum miniaturization of 8-inch originals without losing detail. Each color should be dark enough to convey small elements of the image. For the stamps, Berthold Wolpe's Albertus font was used because it looks like it was carved in bronze and blends seamlessly with Davidson's woodcuts.

[typefacetournament]

ROUND 2 - YELLOW GROUP

Propaganda under the cut.

Albertus Nova Black: [none submitted]

Euphorigenic: "Its nice and tall and typeface-y and I like how its letters go below the line. It is a SEXY LITTLE FONT. PLEASE"

[sepulchrorum]

FUN FACT the dune 1984 poster uses the same font as the current ea games logo, the howls moving castle poster, the obi-wan kenobi show, and grey goose vodka

[happywebdesign]

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[dvandom]

This was my physics notes for a while.

Because I was having trouble reading my own notes, I changed my handwriting to an approximation of the font used in The Prisoner (aka Albertus). This includes a loop-tail g, which I abandoned entirely after a few years because I just couldn't write it well at note-taking speed. But until I did, I still used the open-tail g for the strength of gravity. Similarly, my handwriting e changed to be closer to a lunate epsilon (one of the modifications the Prisoner made to Albertus), but in equations I kept the closed-loop e for electron charge, since I used the lunate epsilon for the electric constant.

Terrible idea: a text which uses both allographs of the letter "g" and they have different meanings. Like there's two characters named "Greg" but they write their names with different "g"s.

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

This week I selected Her Six Difficulties and His Small Mistakes, six poems by Marcia Southwick, with eight relief prints by Richard Bigus, and an introduction by Stephen Tapscott, published in 1988 by Bigus’s Labyrinth Editions in Lincoln, Nebraska. The poems previously appeared in The American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Field, Missouri Review, and Prairie Schooner, but are published here as a collection for the first time.

The eye-catching relief prints take shape through complex lattice structures. The longer you look, the more forms emerge. Parts of Tapscott’s introduction to Southwick’s poems could easily be applied to the prints. He says:

Each perception is whole but mysterious, becoming more lucid almost retrospectively as it changes to the next. The continuity of these perceptions is not linked or linear sequence but is rather the track of a spiral (a vector of progress graphed against a circling, repetitive pattern).

The relief prints were likely designed and cut in a soft material, like linoleum, and later photomechanically transferred to a magnesium plate and printed simultaneously with the text on a Universal I Vandercook proofing press.

The book was printed in an edition of 123 copies, of which our copy is one of 72 copies printed on Cambersand paper. The rest of the edition was printed on Royal Watercolor Society Cotman paper and includes a portfolio of signed prints. Both papers were handmade at the historic Hayle Mill. The fonts are 18pt. Goudy Bible and Emerson Italic cast by A. Colish, and the titling is Albertus. The binding was done at the Campbell-Logan Bindery. The decorative cover paper was made by the artist Richard Bigus who also did the design, illustration, and presswork. 

This book is the sixth publication of Richard Bigus’s Labyrinth Editions. Our copy is signed by the poet and the artist/printer and is a gift from our friend Jerry Buff.  View more posts on our Fine Press Books

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--Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[psygull]

Hello what is your most and least favourite font? :)

HELLO tumblr user oniongarlic. lately i've been into Albertus:

which is the font used in the credits of the '84 Dune movie and also in a bunch of John Carpenter films. i love it and am always excited to spot it in the wild

as for least favorite, there's a lot of vitriol directed towards stuff like Comic Sans and Papyrus (some deserved, some not!) but i think the worst default microsoft font award should go to Curlz MT:

tell us you own a boutique without telling us you own a boutique

honorable mention goes to Trajan, star of many a bad "historical" film poster, but i think Trajan is funny so it gets a pass

[ashensamurai]

albertus-esque font for the title credits. interesting

rip dr. gruber