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Re: garamond 14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri Apr 13 00:09:46 2012
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: APO Press <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
cc: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204122331040.5213@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
Definitions:
Groove: the square cut notch on the base of a piece of type, that sits
on the stone. Reduces stress on type as it's locked up, and printed
with.
Nick: a round cut notch on the bottom face/side of a piece of type.
There may be more than one nick. Generally the number of nicks and
their placement is unique for each point side of each type design made
by each type foundry.
Apologies for being confusing about this is the earlier version of
this email. I had meant to save it as a draft, until I could double
check the definitions.
The following version is correct.
thanx -len
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:36:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: APO Press <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
Cc: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: garamond 14
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:46:16 -0400
From: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
Hi all
I was setting some type today and noticed that the tray of
garamond 14 we have have pieces with two different groove (she
mean nick) patterns. I can't remember if this is a known thing,
and nothing to worry about it, or if some other type got mixed
in by mistake.
Thanks and YiLFS
Benazeer
Hi type groove and nick(s) noticers
Most of the Garamond 14pt has a single nick. There is a little
with three nicks where one of the three nicks lines up with and is the same
diameter as the single nick type.
They seem to be the same version of Garamond. But the only way to
really tell is to do a proof with both versions being printed.
As I emailed in January, Garamond 14pt also has some shiny new CAPS with
punctuation/spaces/quads:
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:49:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: apo-printshop@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Shiny! Thanks. Shop changes
Hi ink2paperers
SHINY. To help Kate Mahoney with the wedding invites for her brother,
I donated a sort of Garamond 14pt Caps and punctuation.
New type is very SHINY, and you might want a look in the drawer soon.
...
yiLFS -len http://www.art.net/~tower/
