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Re: Font questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Sun Jan 8 21:46:31 2012
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:46:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Kate Mahoney <kate_mahoney@alum.mit.edu>
cc: apo-printshop@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <527543C9-BA26-478F-9655-D5D4D7A601C1@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 20:19:03 -0500
From: Kate Mahoney <kate_mahoney@alum.mit.edu>
Everyone, see "ANYONE" below ; - }
Quick typesetting question:
Does the chapter have any serif style fonts (Times Roman, Century
Schoolbook, Caslon) in a small caps font?
Hi Kate,
Anyone else?
(There are type cases, I've never completely looked through.)
Libra 18pt is the closest I know of. And there isn't a lot of it.
Cooperplate Gothic Heavy 12pt & 6pt has small caps, but it's sans serif.
Nice font, AX's letterhead uses it. More of it than the Libra, but
not a super lot.
You might also try using Century Schoolbook BOLD for the Large Cap and
Century Schoolbook for the Small Cap in the same point size and see
how it looks.
If not, would mixing 2 different point sizes of the same font work?
Kate
Maybe. The Gotcha is whether you can get the baselines to line up.
Or if it's OK to have them slightly off.
You fill the space above (and/or maybe below) the small font
with lead to fill to the point size of the larger font.
It's nice to not have to cut more lead to fit then necessary,
but you do have to almost fill the gap side-to-side, and exactly fill
it top to bottom. Easy enough as we have 1pt and 2pt leads.
There is some uncut leads on top of the tall single type cabinet,
nearest the light switch. Not sure what thicknesses.
I believe Katheryn French did this for her personal calling card, but
she didn't log the font(s) used, and I can't find the sample (fifteen
mintues is all I have right now (ANYONE want to get the samples in
date order, and into the right categories?)). I just emailed her to
see if she remembers.
yiLFS -len
