#lettergraph

[crochetcouch]

Letter R, Baby Blanket, C2C Graph, & Written Word Chart

[grad503-taylamills]

Herb Lubalin - Key Moments

1949 - He was working at Suddler & Hennessy, which was a pioneering brand in healthcare marketing, founded more than 75 years ago. During this time, he became one off the ‘pioneers’ of expressive typography.

1957 - Whilst still working at Suddler & Hennessy, Lubalin and John J. Graham created the original NBC Peacock logo, which is the most famous and well known NBC logo to date.

1961 - Herb Lubalin designed a trademark for the Saturday evening post, which it went on to use for several years.

1964 - Lubalin formed his own design consultant firm, Herb Lubalin Inc, which later evolved into what is referred to as the first international graphics cartel. Five years later, the firm was renamed, LSC Inc.

1964 - Lubalin used Pistilli Roman as his first typeface, which later comprised the trademarks of Lincoln Centre, the Metropolitan and the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to 1985. This typeface was collaboratively designed along with John Pistilli. It was later sold by Lettergraphs as Roman No.

1968 - The Avant Garde magazine was first released, which was the third major collaboration between Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin. The magazine went on to be published for 3 years.

1973 - Lubalin created a trademark for the World Trade Centre at its opening.

1984 - Although Lubalin passed away in 1981, he was awarded the Type Directors Club medal in 1984.

1985 - The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography opened in 1985, which was created in order to preserve Herb Lubalin’s vast collection of work. Its goal was to provide the design community with a means to honor Lubalin and to study his innovative work.

[fontaboo]

Chilidog PB Looking for a real fun whack-a-doodle typestyle? You may have just found your match with the Chilidog PB typeface. Chilidog PB began as a digitization of the film typeface called Nectar by LetterGraphics. Publisher: Pink Broccoli on Monotype

[dreaprieto]

Anybody looking for old type specimen books? There’s a couple good ones here. Lettergraphics in Culver City, BTS in Inglewood and Monson Typographers in Chicago to name a few. (at The International Printing Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0uGfvwAmb0/?igshid=i4zdf2fx7kaf

[letterlibrary]

#photolettering catalog by Lettergraphics Munich #typespecimen

[typeologist]

The Godfather’s Haunted Lineage

Othello Othello (Gustav F. Schroeder, Central Type Foundry, ca.1884–92) Othello (Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1934) Roundhead (Franklin, 1889 / MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, ca.1891) Fiorello (Photo-Lettering), CG Fiorello Condensed (Compugraphic), PL Fiorello Condensed (Agfa/Monotype) Larchmont, the Godfather logo font (Lettergraphics, official name unconfirmed, may be a clone) Dutch Master (Roger Hartley, Silver Graphics, 1995) Macbeth (Linotype) Iago NF (Nick Curtis, Nick’s Fonts, 2011) Bathysphere (Seymour Caprice, Kickingbird, 2013)

Rubens Rubens (John F. Cumming, Boston Type Foundry, 1884 / ATF / Palmer & Rey / Franklin, 1889) Teniers (John F. Cumming, Boston Type Foundry, 1887) Seems to be simply a small caps version of Rubens. Ravenscroft (Justin Callaghan, Mickey Avenue, 2001) Rubens (Jordan Davies, Wooden Type Fonts, 2005) Rublof (NovelFonts) Whelan Antique (Photoscript, Ltd.)

Duerer Duerer (John F. Cumming, Boston Type Foundry, ca.1890 / Palmer & Rey) Excelsis (Dan X. Solo, Solotype)

Ornamental Cousins Makart (Julius Herriet, Boston Type Foundry, ca.1886 / Palmer & Rey) Argent (Cleveland Type Foundry, 1883) Algonquin (John F. Cumming, Dickinson Type Foundry, ca.1890) Telegraph (Charles H. Beeler, MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, 1895) Telegraph (Dan X. Solo, Solotype) Apothecary (Roger Hartley, Silver Graphics, 1993) LHF Ambrosia (Chuck Davis, Letterhead Fonts, 2004) Astroid Primo (Spiece Graphics, 2009)

Wooden Uncles 506 (W. H. Page) Teniers (Hamilton, 1888) Teniers (Jordan Davies, Wooden Type Fonts, 2005) Page No. 500 Page No. 506 (Jordan Davies, Wooden Type Fonts, 2005) Goodfellow (Solotype) House of Cards (Ryoichi Tsunekawa, Flat-It, 2012)

Phototype Offspring? Larchmont (Lettergraphics, ca. 1969)

[grad503-taylamills]

In 1964, Herb Lubalin and John Pistilli collaboratively designed a photocompoditor typeface, which they named ‘Pistil Roman’. It was later sold by Lettergraphics as Roman No. 1 in 1968. Pistil Roman later comprised the trademarks of Lincoln Centre, the Metropolitan and the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to 1985.

[fontaboo]

Quandor

The Quandor Family began as a digitization of a film typeface from LetterGraphics known simply as “Impacta”. The original specimen included standard Capitals and Lowercase, as well as a Biform character set.

Publisher: Stiggy & Sands on Monotype