[6543] in APO Printshop
Re: Fwd: APO Printing Press Fonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri Apr 13 05:57:12 2012
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:57:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
cc: Andrew Farrell <afarrell@mit.edu>, apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204120628500.19873@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
It's quite possible that there is Garamond 8pt:
* mixed in with Clearface or another 8pt font case
* in the boxes of totally pied type on the galleys of undistributed
type
yiLFS -len http://www.art.net/~tower/
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:37:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Farrell <afarrell@mit.edu>, apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Fwd: APO Printing Press Fonts
Benazeer
Have you checked the galleys with set type and mixed up type from old
jobs for Garamond 8pt?
In the tall wood rack to the left of the lock-up stone.
Clearface 8pt or Cloister O.S. (Old Style) 8pt are close matches to
Garamond 8pt.
Putting the type in the galleys away would be a big help to the shop.
People often run out of type in a case and it's in those galleys.
After that, we can talk about you could helping me put my recent
contributions to the shop away.
yiLFS -len
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:55:32 -0400
From: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Andrew Farrell <afarrell@mit.edu>, apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Fwd: APO Printing Press Fonts
Hi
The garamond 8pt is not actually useable -- it is outright missing some
chars (lower case b,c, i, upper case H, P T) and only has two or three
instances for other chars (ie, there is only one lower case "i" in the case)
Len -- there are several unopened packages of type addressed to you in the
office. I'm afraid I wasn't paying too much attention to this list while
I was thesing, and now I can't find the messages about them in my
archives. Do you want help inspecting and sorting the type in those
packages? And do we have cases to sort the type into?
YiLFS
Benazeer
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>wrote:
> Hi Andrew:
>
> Here is the list I keep. It's of the fonts that are believed useable.
>
> ======================================================================
> Broom (? ?) 36
> Brush (ATF? 689?) 30 48(???)
> Caslon No. 540 (ATF 233) 24(CAPS only) 30
> Caslon Openface (ATF 1571) 12 18 24
> Century Schoolbook (ATF? 454?) 10 12 14
> Century Schoolbook Bold (ATF? 479?) 10 12 14 18 24 30(No figures) 36 48
> Clearface (ATF 91) 8
> Cloister O.S. (ATF? ??) 8 10 12
> Cloister Italic & Cursive (ATF? ??) 10 12 24
> Cooper Black (ATF? 1590?) 18
> Copperplate Gothic Heavy (ATF 130) 6pt-21 6pt-22 6pt-23 6pt-24 12pt-25
> 12pt-26
> Engravers Old English (ATF 148) 8 10 12(lower case only) 14 24 48
> Garamond (ATF 459) 8 10 12 14 18 24 36 60
> Garamond Italic (ATF 460) 12 14 18
> Goudy Bold (ATF? 446?) 6
> Goudy Bold Italic (ATF? 464?) 8 10 18 24
> Gravure (ATF series??) 12 18
> Liberty (ATF 511) 12 14 18
> Libra Regular (ATF 5111)
> Libra Light (ATF 5112)
> Libra (Amsterdam Holland - Order nr. ? nr. ?) 8 Small
> Libra (Amsterdam Holland - Order nr. 20249 nr. 12964) 18 Small
> Libra (Amsterdam Holland - Order nr. 20217 nr. 12966) 24 Small
> Libra (Amsterdam Holland - Order nr. 20217 nr. 12962) 12 Large
> Libra (Amsterdam Holland - Order nr. 20272 nr. 12965) 18 Large
> Missal Initials (? ?) 10(CAPS only)
> News Gothic Condensed (ATF 339) 10 (Monotype?) 14 18 24 30
> News Gothic Condensed Bold (ATF? 724?) 10 Caps ONLY
> P.T.Barnum (ATF 944) 24
> Typo Script (ATF 399) 14 18 24
> Typo Upright (? ?) 14
> Universal Gothic (? ?) 14
> Wedding Text (ATF 414) 10 12 18 24
> ======================================================================
>
> yiLFS -len
>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:31:28 -0500
> From: Andrew Farrell <afarrell@MIT.EDU>
>
> Do we have a list of fonts somewhere?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jen Selby <jenselby@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:17 PM
> Subject: APO Printing Press Fonts
> To: Andrew Farrell <afarrell@mit.edu>
>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Back in early January, I talked you about printing wedding
> invitations. I think I remember that you said there was a list of
> available fonts somewhere. Can you send me the list or a link to it?
>
> YiLFS,
> Jen Selby
>
>
