#fancy initials

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last week we presented a 1900 edition of The Confessions of St. Augustine with illustrations by Paul Woodroffe (1875-1954) and a title-page border designed by Laurence Housman (1865-1959), all engraved in wood by Houseman's sister Clemence Houseman (1861-1955). Another visual element in the book is the use of elaborate, wood-engraved, Arts and Crafts-style initials found throughout the book. Today we are showcasing all the initial letters used in the publication.

Their design is uncredited, but it is possible that they could have been designed by Woodroffe as he was deeply influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. Two years after illustrating this book, Woodroffe was elected a member of the Art Workers' Guild, an organization of artist and designers associated with the ideas of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, and in the same year he became closely associated with Charles Robert Ashbee and his Guild of Handicraft and Essex House Press, institutions closely allied with the movement. Again, it's conjecture, but we would like to think that Clemence Houseman had a hand in engraving these initials.

View more posts with wood engravings by Clemence Houseman.

View other posts with illustrations by Paul Woodroffe.

View a few other posts with books in the Arts & Crafts style.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

[byjovewhataspend]

the students got too rowdy after curfew and erasermic had to come out and scold them

sort of the goth couple equivalent to that 'flowing sheer robes vs sleeping cap and nightgown' couple meme.

[ineed-to-sleep]

Jackie died. Jackie died and I'm devastated. I will never be the same person again

[void-writing]

Escape from Flower Fruit Mountain

"What can you do? You were all trapped. Either you all die in Peng’s hands or the celestial flames burn you all alive. You never should’ve sent your brothers inside. There’s no exit, no - wait.

There was a way out. The transportation circle in your room you never quite got to erasing."

Chapter 15 of "Queen of the Mountain" by @centuryberry

[ghcstcd]

have a you ever seen what a velvet worm is? If not then I highly suggest you do. Trust me, you’ll be pleasantly surprised

This creature looks so pathetic, I was compelled to draw it.

[empty-dream]

[forthepastandnotthenow]

i feel like there is so much miscommunication/misunderstanding shenanigans that can happen since wade and matt have the same initials but just flipped upside down

[c6jpg]

skin tone aside i think what's throwing a lot of people off to make the natlan character designs seem like "pokemon" or "not genshin" is that the designs are relatively modern-looking compared to the fantasy/traditional aesthetic that genshin usually goes for. if anything i'd have expected these kinds of designs from zenless zone zero

[pseudo-hero]

In the same spirit as the bottom of my "Comics!Clex Plot Connection?" post, here's another (sort of serious) Clex/SuperTie Translation:

Lex Luthor: "You and I could make a pretty lovin—I mean, great pair, I think. A wonderful not-couple. Don't you think? Pretty please say you do! We could save each other."

Superman: *Pretends to not have already made up his mind* "Listen Lex, I want to be able to hold you believe in you so badly...which is why I came here to ask you...if you would be...my partner in stopping crime?"

Lex Luthor: "...What...? Oh...! I thought you'd never ask! I mean—I knew you'd eventually come around to see things my way...my love."

[denzartriste]

Mcyt physically disabled day 2-Sign language + HoH @mcytphysicaldisabilityweek

I love them a reasonable amount i swear. (Pomme on the second panel is the proudest i've been doing a drawing she's perfect just LOOK AT HERRRR)

i think of Lulah as hard of hearing and Pomme as mute. The sign language was tough to do because the joke of this is that they're using diffrent sign languages, pomme is using LSF (french sign language) and Tallulah is using ASL (American sign language). Honestly i did want her to speak LSM (Mexican sign language) or BSL (British sign language), but the thing about those is that usually when looking up a sign language in english, even if you specify it isnt ASL, google gives you ASL. And i dont speak spanish so i wouldnt have been able to look up LSM in spanish, where google would actually give me correct answers. The only reason im mostly confident i got the LSF correct is because i speak french and could look it up and understand what youtube videos were telling me. But with Tallulah maybe Fit taught her ASL and that's why she knows it. I'm thinking too much about language anyway with their powers combined Tallulah and Pomme would create Quebecois sign language in this essay i will-

[sugarsweetvirgo]

The Unveiling.

The day Eve was publicly revealed to the world.

[fancypersonaskeletonturtle]

Soooo….. I recently learned that pirates wear eyepatches to adapt their eyes to see better in the dark •_• I don’t know if I’m the only dumbass who never knew this and thought it was just to cover the gaping hole in their eye this whole time. I also can’t believe I was never curious enough about this to google search it before.

[fauvester]

Grand babbee cardassian has broken me… also more Jocasta content pls we love a quiet queen

GRANPA GARAK! A DISIPLINARIAN!

He gets up early every day to pick fresh fruit from the garden for his grandkids. Elim III is his Little Regnar. Lim thinks he's going to spoil them rotten (the orphanage and the dirt floor gardening shed that they lived in was CHARACTER BUILDING. it made him the MAN HE IS TODAY.)

JOCASTA LOVE.... she's truly an underrated queen.. here maam ms head scrub nurse you dropped your crown 👑

She cares about outward presentation as much as any Cardassian, but especially hair (cardassian hair being much thicker and coarser than human fur.)

also she refers to julian as Dr Bashir at work just out of propriety and respect. most people don't know that they're father and daughter simply because she does not care to tell them. they just think she's his favorite because she's good at her job and gently takes no shit

^ scenes that play before the least pleasant vacation miles has ever been on

[bluesinnamonroll]

Yhea so I have personal redesigns for these two or whatever, no i wont explain anything about them lol bye

[pepperpixel]

Both love and hate the absolute DELUGE of ink a fresh sharpie unleashes onto the paper the instant it makes contact…. I have complicated feelings towards the deluge lmao

[cowboysmp3]

not to b crazy but i think a regency romance narumitsu au would fuck supremely and this is totally not just because i think edgeworth could be the awkward autismcore stuffy high status man who accidentally offends wright at fancy balls or anything,,