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Typographic Calender | 2012
Typography Calendar
2012
January
Sunday 1
Saturday 31
Monday 2 Tuesday 3
Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6
January
Saturday 7
Sunday 8
Monday 9 Tuesday 10
Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday 13
Saturday 14
Sunday 15
Monday 16 Tuesday 17
Wednesday 18 Thursday 19 Friday 20
January
Sunday 22
Saturday 21
Monday 23 Tuesday 24
Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 Friday 27
Sunday 29
Saturday 28
Monday 30 Tuesday 31
Wednesday 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3
January
2012
Bell MT
In 1931 Monotype made this facsimile of the typeface cut originally for John Bell by Richard Austin in 1788, using as a basis the matrices in the possession of Stephenson Blake & Co. Used in Bell’s newspaper, “The Oracle,” it was regarded by Stanley Morison as the first English Modern face. Although inspired by French punchcutters of the time, with a vertical stress and fine hairlines, the face is less severe than the French models and is now classified as Transitional. Essentially a text face, Bell can be used for books, magazines, long articles etc.
Born in London, Richard Austin trained as a wood-engraver with Thomas Bewick. In 1788 he joined the British Letter Foundry of publisher John Bell as a punch-cutter. Influenced by Bell’s enthusiasm for contemporary French types, Austin, a skillful cutter, produced a very sharply serifed letter which Stanley Morison was to call the first English modern face. the type retains some old-style characteristics and should more properly be called a late transitional. Austin went on to cut true moderns and later, in 1819, after starting a foundry of his own, he outlined the dangers of such designs being taken to extremes.
Richard Austin (Bell MT)1768–1830 GB
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February
Sunday 29
Saturday 28
Monday 30 Tuesday 31
Wednesday 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3
February
Saturday 4
Sunday 5
Monday 6 Tuesday 7
Wednesday 8 Thursday 9 Friday 10
Saturday 11
Sunday 12
Monday 13 Tuesday 14
Wednesday 15 Thursday 16 Friday 17
February
Sunday 19
Saturday 18
Monday 20 Tuesday 21
Wednesday 22 Thursday 23 Friday 24
Saturday 25
Sunday 26
Monday 27 Tuesday 28
Wednesday 29 Thursday 1 Friday 2
February
2012
Minion ProMinion Pro is an Adobe Original typeface designed by Robert Slimbach. The first version of Minion was released in 1990. Cyrillic additions were released in 1992, and finally the OpenType Pro version was released in 2000. Minion Pro is inspired by classical, old style typefaces of the late Renaissance, a period of elegant, beautiful, and highly readable type designs. Minion Pro combines the aesthetic and functional qualities that make text type highly readable with the versatility of OpenType digital technology, yielding unprecedented flexibility and typographic control, whether for lengthy text or display settings. The full Minion Pro family contains three weights and two widths, each with optical size variants, and each supporting a full range of Western languages, including Greek and Cyrillic. With its many ligatures, small caps, oldstyle figures, swashes, and other added glyphs, Minion Pro is ideal for uses ranging from limited-edition books to newsletters to packaging.
Robert Slimbach, who was born in Evanston, Illinois, received his training and early experience of type design in the drawing office of Autologic in California. In 1987, after two years of self-employment, which saw him contribute ITC Slimbach and ITC Giovanni to the International Typeface Corporation, he joined Adobe Systems. Since then, he has been designing and developing typefaces for the Adobe Originals program. Slimbach’s typefaces offer type users a rich palette of designs, mostly for text use, based on his enthusiasm for classic letter forms. In 1999 he received the Prix Charles Peignot from the Association Typographique Internationale for excellence in type design. Robert Slimbach
(Adobe Garamond, Minion Pro, Myriad Pro)b. 1956 USA
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March
Sunday 26
Saturday 25
Monday 27 Tuesday 28
Wednesday 29 Thursday 1 Friday 2
March
Saturday 3
Sunday 4
Monday 5
Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 Friday 9
Tuesday 6
Saturday 10
Sunday 11
Monday 12 Tuesday 13
Wednesday 14 Thursday 15 Friday 16
March
Sunday 18
Saturday 17
Monday 19
Wednesday 21 Thursday 22 Friday 23
Tuesday 20
Saturday 24
Sunday 25
Monday 26 Tuesday 27
Wednesday 28 Thursday 29 Friday 30
March
Saturday 31
Sunday 1
2012
Perpetua
Type designer Eric Gill’s most popular Roman typeface is Perpetua, which was released by the Monotype Corporation between 1925 and 1932. It first appeared in a limited edition of the book The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, for which the typeface was named. The italic form was originally called Felicity. Perpetua’s clean chiseled look recalls Gill’s stonecutting work and makes it an excellent text typeface, giving sparkle to long passages of text; the Perpetua capitals have beautiful, classical lines that make this one of the finest display alphabets available.
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, letter-cutter, sculptor, wood-engraver and type designer, was one of the most prominent and controversial figures of his day. Born in Brighton, Gill studied at Chichester School of Art before being apprenticed to an ecclesiastical architect in London. Whilst there he attended the classes of the calligrapher Edward Johnston at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Thus he became involved in the small world of scribes and illuminators and the Arts and Crafts Movement, embarking on a career as a stone cutter and letterer. Gill designed his first typeface at the invitation of Stanley Morison of the Monotype Corporation. The drawings for the type, Perpetua, were begun in 1925. Gill Sans, designed during the same period, was based on the same sources as the Johnston Sans Serif. Gill had painted san-serif lettering on the Douglas Cleverdon’s Bristol Bookshop in 1927 and it was this that suggested the idea of a Gill sans serif to Morison. Joanna was cut by the Caslon foundry; one of its first uses in 1931 was for Gill’s own Essay on Typography. These three typefaces are from his most creative period.
Eric Gill (Perpetua, Gill Sans)1882–1940 GB
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April
Sunday 1
Saturday 31
Monday 2 Tuesday 3
Thursday 5 Friday 6
April
Wednesday 4
Saturday 7
Sunday 8
Monday 9 Tuesday 10
Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday 13
Sunday 15
Monday 16 Tuesday 17
Thursday 19 Friday 20Wednesday 18
Saturday 14
April
22 Sunday
21 Saturday
Monday 23 Tuesday 24
Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 Friday 27
Saturday 28
Sunday 29
Monday 30 Tuesday 1
Thursday 3 Friday 4Wednesday 2
April
2012
Century GothicCentury Gothic Regular fonts maintains the basic design of 20th Century but has an enlarged ‘x’ height and has been modified to ensure satisfactory output from modern digital systems. A design based on 20th Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 1936 and 1947. The Century Gothic Fonts Regular design is influenced by the geometric style sans serif faces which were popular during the 1920’s and 30’s. Century Gothic Fonts Regular is useful for headlines and general display work and for small quantities of text, particularly in advertising.
For 50 Years Sol Hess was art director of Lanston Monotype Machinery Co., where he succeeded his friend and collaborator F W Goudy. He started with the company in 1902 after a three-year scholarship couse at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, and as a type designer there he redrew and readapted all their typographical materials. His forte was the development of type families, and during his years with Lanston monotype he carried out commissions for many leading American companies, including Curtis Publishing, Crowell-Collier, Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Yale University Press and World Publishing Company.
Sol Hess ((20th Century) the base for Century Gothic)1886–1953 USA
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May
Sunday 29
Saturday 28
Monday 30 Tuesday 1
Wednesday 2 Thursday 3 Friday 4
May
Saturday 5
Sunday 6
Monday 7 Tuesday 8
Wednesday 9 Thursday 10 Friday 11
Saturday 12
Sunday 13
Monday 14 Tuesday 15
Thursday 17 Friday 18Wednesday 16
May
Sunday 20
Saturday 19
Monday 21 Tuesday 22
Wednesday 23 Thursday 24 Friday 25
Saturday 26
Sunday 27
Monday 28 Tuesday 29
Thursday 31 Friday 1Wednesday 30
May
2012
Myriad ProAn Adobe Originals design first released in 1992, Myriad has become popular for both text and display composition. As an OpenType release, Myriad Pro expands this sans serif family to include Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, as well as adding oldstyle figures and improving support for Latin-based languages. The full Myriad Pro family includes condensed, normal, and extended widths in a full range of weights. Designed by Robert Slimbach & Carol Twombly with Fred Brady & Christopher Slye, Myriad has a warmth and readability that result from the humanistic treatment of letter proportions and design detail. Myriad Pro’s clean open shapes, precise letter fit, and extensive kerning pairs make this unified family of roman and italic an excellent choice for text typography that is comfortable to read, while the wide variety of weights and widths in the family provide a generous creative palette for even the most demanding display typography.
Carol Twombly studied design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she became interested in type design and typography. She received an MS from Stanford University in the graduate programme of digital typography under Charles Bigelow, and later joined the Bigelow & Holmes Studio. In the Morisawa Typeface Design Competition in 1984 she won first prize for Mirarae, a latin design which has since been licensed and released. A member of the Adobe type studio since 1988, Twombly has designed many successful display and text typefaces for the Adobe Originals library. In 1994 she was the first woman to receive from ATypI the Prix Charles Peignot for outstanding contributions to type design.
Carol Twombly (Adobe Caslon, Myriad Pro)b. 1959 USA (Bio right)
Robert Slimbach (Adobe Garamond, Minion Pro, Myriad Pro)b. 1956 USA (Bio featured in February)
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June
Sunday27
Saturday 26
Monday 28 Tuesday 29
Wednesday 30 Thursday 31 Friday 1
June
Saturday 2
Sunday 3
Monday 4 Tuesday 5
Wednesday 6 Thursday 7 Friday 8
Saturday 9
Sunday 10
Monday 11 Tuesday 12
Thursday 14 Friday 15Wednesday 13
June
Sunday 17
Saturday 16
Monday 18 Tuesday 19
Wednesday 20 Thursday 21 Friday 22
Saturday 23
Sunday 24
Monday 25 Tuesday 26
Thursday 28 Friday 29Wednesday 27
June
Saturday 30
Sunday 1
2012
Gill Sans MTDesigned by Eric Gill and released by the Monotype Corporation between 1928 and 1930, Gill Sans is based on the typeface Edward Johnston, the innovative British letterer and teacher, designed in 1916 for the signage of the London Underground. Gill’s alphabet is more classical in proportion and contains his signature flared capital R and eyeglass lowercase g. With distinct roots in pen-written letters, Gill Sans is classified as a humanist sans serif, making it very legible and readable in text and display work. The condensed, bold, and display versions are excellent for packaging or posters.
Eric Gill (Perpetua, Gill Sans)1882–1940 GB (Bio featured in March)
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July
Sunday 1
Saturday 30
Monday 2 Tuesday 3
Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6
July
Saturday 7
Sunday 8
Monday 9 Tuesday 10
Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday 13
Saturday 14
Sunday 15
Monday 16 Tuesday 17
Thursday 19 Friday 20Wednesday 18
July
Sunday 22
Saturday 21
Monday 23 Tuesday 24
Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 Friday 27
Saturday 28
Sunday 29
Monday 30 Tuesday 31
Thursday 2 Friday 3Wednesday 1
July
2012
Helvetica Neue
The history of Helvetica includes a number of twists and turns. There are, in fact, two versions of Helvetica. The first one is the original design, which was created by Max Miedinger and released by Linotype in 1957. And secondly, in 1983, D. Stempel AG, Linotype’s daughter company, released the Neue Helvetica® design, which was a re-working of the 1957 original. The outcome was a synthesis of aesthetic and technical refinements and modifications that resulted in improved appearance, legibility and usefulness.
Max Miedinger, born in Zurich, was an in-house designer with the Haas foundry in Munchenstein, Switzerland. His most famous typeface is Helvetica, currently one of the most widely used sans serifs, which was designed in 1956. Edward Hoffman of Haas had asked Miedinger to adapt the existing Haas Grotesk to bring it in line with current taste. Haas Grotesk had its origins in the 19th-century German grotesques like Berthold’s Akzidenz-Grotesk. The type, which was created from Miedinger’s china-ink drawings, seemed like a new design in its own right, rather than an old one with minor retouching as had been the original plan. Although designed for the home market, the then-called Neue Haas Grotesk proved popluar farther afield. When Stempel AG in Germany released the face in 1961 they called it Helvetica, the traditional Latin name for Switzerland, in order to capitalize on the fashion for Swiss typography. Additional weights were added to the Helvetica family over the years. In 1983 Linotype released a new, more extensive version, Neue Helvetica, in 51 weights.
Max Miedinger ((Helvetica) the base for Helvetica Neue)1910–1980 CH
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August
Sunday 29
Saturday 28
Monday 30 Tuesday 31
Wednesday 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3
August
Saturday 4
Sunday 5
Monday 6 Tuesday 7
Wednesday 8 Thursday 9 Friday 10
Saturday 11
Sunday 12
Monday 13 Tuesday 14
Thursday 16 Friday 17Wednesday 15
August
Sunday 19
Saturday 18
Monday 20 Tuesday 21
Wednesday 22 Thursday 23 Friday 24
Saturday 25
Sunday 26
Monday 27 Tuesday 28
Thursday 30 Friday 31Wednesday 29
August
2012
Franklin GothicFranklin Gothic, one of the most popular sans serif types ever produced, was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1902 for American Type Founders. In 1979, under license with ATF, Vic Caruso began work on more weights of the design for ITC. This version adheres closely to the subtle thick and thin pattern of the original design; the slightly enlarged x-height and condensed proportions of the new version result in greater economy of space. This typeface is a standard choice for use in newspapers and advertising. In 1991, David Berlow completed the family for ITC by creating compressed and condensed weights. ITC Franklin Gothic Compressed is designed especially to solve impossibly tight copyfitting problems, while maintaining high legibility standards. ITC Franklin Condensed provides medium weights of narrow proportions. It is frequently seen in newspapers, advertisements, posters, and anyplace with space restrictions.
Morris Fuller Benton is accredited with being the most prolific type designer in American history, with an output twice as great as that of Frederic Goudy (although in fairness Goudy did not start his career until a later age). A factor in his relative anonymity was his position as an in-house designer, but in a position that suited his retiring character: when pressed he would put his successes down to ‘Lady Luck’. Benton has been credited with inventing the concept of the type family and although this is not the case he did do his best work expanding faces into families and adapting existing type styles for ATF. Between 1900 and 1928 he designed 18 variations on Century, including the popular Century Schoolbook.
Morris Fuller Benton (Century Schoolbook, Franklin Gothic)1872–1948 USA
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September
Sunday 2
Saturday 1
Monday 3 Tuesday 4
Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Friday 7
September
Saturday 8
Sunday 9
Monday 10 Tuesday 11
Wednesday 12 Thursday 13 Friday 14
Saturday 15
Sunday 16
Monday 17 Tuesday 18
Thursday 20 Friday 21Wednesday 19
September
Sunday 23
Saturday 22
Monday 24 Tuesday 25
Wednesday 26 Thursday 27 Friday 28
Saturday 29
Sunday 30
Monday 1 Tuesday 2
Thursday 4 Friday 5Wednesday 3
September
2012
Adobe Garamond ProAn Adobe Originals design, and Adobe’s first historical revival, Adobe Garamond is a digital interpretation of the roman types of Claude Garamond and the italic types of Robert Granjon. Since its release in 1989, Adobe Garamond has become a typographic staple throughout the world of desktop typography and design. Adobe type designer Robert Slimbach has captured the beauty and balance of the original Garamond typefaces while creating a typeface family that offers all the advantages of a contemporary digital type family. With the introduction of OpenType font technology, Adobe Garamond has been reissued as a Pro type family that takes advantage of OpenType’s advanced typographic capabilities. Now this elegant type family can be used with even greater efficiency and precision in OpenType-savvy applications such as Adobe InDesign.
Robert Slimbach (Adobe Garamond, Minion Pro, Myriad Pro)b. 1956 USA (Bio featured in February)
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October
Sunday 30
Saturday 29
Monday 1 Tuesday 2
Wednesday 3 Thursday 4 Friday 5
October
Saturday 6
Sunday 7
Monday 8 Tuesday 9
Wednesday 10 Thursday 11 Friday 12
Saturday 13
Sunday 14
Monday 15 Tuesday 16
Thursday 18 Friday 19Wednesday 17
October
Sunday 21
Saturday 20
Monday 22 Tuesday 23
Wednesday 24 Thursday 25 Friday 26
Saturday 27
Sunday 28
Monday 29 Tuesday 30
Thursday 1 Friday 2Wednesday 31
October
2012
Century Schoolbook Another version of the Century family was produced when Ginn & Company, a textbook publisher, commissioned American Type Founders to design a typeface with maximum legibility. Morris Benton researched the subjects of eyesight and legibility, then created Century Schoolbook, which was released between 1918 and 1921. Century Schoolbook is still seen in elementary school texts, and can be used for text work where legibility is a primary consideration.
Morris Fuller Benton (Century Schoolbook, Franklin Gothic)1872–1948 USA (Bio featured in August)
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November
Sunday 28
Saturday 27
Monday 29 Tuesday 30
Wednesday 31 Thursday 1 Friday 2
November
Saturday 3
Sunday 4
Monday 5 Tuesday 6
Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 Friday 9
Saturday 10
Sunday 11
Monday 12 Tuesday 13
Thursday 15 Friday 16Wednesday 14
November
Sunday 18
Saturday 17
Monday 19 Tuesday 20
Wednesday 21 Thursday 22 Friday 23
Saturday 24
Sunday 25
Monday 26 Tuesday 27
Thursday 29 Friday 30Wednesday 28
November
2012
Adobe Caslon ProWilliam Caslon released his first typefaces in 1722. Caslon’s types were based on seventeenth-century Dutch old style designs, which were then used extensively in England. Because of their remarkable practicality, Caslon’s designs met with instant success. Caslon’s types became popular throughout Europe and the American colonies; printer Benjamin Franklin hardly used any other typeface. The first printings of the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were set in Caslon. For her Caslon revival, designer Carol Twombly studied specimen pages printed by William Caslon between 1734 and 1770. The OpenType Pro version merges formerly separate fonts (expert, etc.), and adds both central European language support and several additional ligatures. Ideally suited for text in sizes ranging from 6- to 14-point, Adobe Caslon Pro is the right choice for magazines, journals, book publishing, and corporate communications.
William Caslon I was the first British typefounder of any renown and was responsible for ending the dependence of British printers on imported Dutch types which (with some French types) had dominated the market throughout the 17th century. Born in Worcestershire, William Caslon began his career in London engraving and chasing gun barrels (occasionally also cutting brass letters for bookbinders) until a printer called William Bowyer, after seeing some of his letters, encouraged him to try punch-cutting. Bowyer lent him €500 to start his own foundry, which he opened in London’s Vine Street probably in 1722 or 1723. In 1734 the foundry moved to Chiswell Street, where Caslon published his famous specimen sheet showing a full range of the roman types he cut. His work found particular favour in America, and Caslon type was used by Mary Katherine Goddard of Baltimore for printing the Declaration of Independence.
William Caslon (Adobe Caslon Pro)1692–1766 GB (Bio right)
Carol Twombly (Adobe Caslon, Myriad Pro)b. 1959 USA (Bio featured in May)
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December
Sunday 2
Saturday 1
Monday 3 Tuesday 4
Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Friday 7
December
Saturday 8
Sunday 9
Monday 10 Tuesday 11
Wednesday 12 Thursday 13 Friday 14
Saturday 15
Sunday 16
Monday 17 Tuesday 18
Thursday 20 Friday 21Wednesday 19
December
Sunday 23
Saturday 22
Monday 24 Tuesday 25
Wednesday 26 Thursday 27 Friday 28
29 Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday 1 Tuesday
3 Thursday 4 Friday2 Wednesday
December
2012
Goudy Old StyleIn 1915, Frederic W. Goudy designed Goudy Old Style, his twenty-fifth typeface, and his first for American Type Founders. Flexible enough for both text and display, it’s one of the most popular typefaces ever produced, frequently used for packaging and advertising. Its recognizable features include the diamond-shaped dots on i, j, and on punctuation marks; the upturned ear of the g; and the base of E and L. Several years later, in response to the overwhelming popularity of Cooper Black, Lanston Monotype commissioned Frederic W. Goudy to design heavy versions of Goudy Old Style. Goudy Heavyface and Goudy Heavyface Italic were released in 1925. The huge success of Goudy’s typefaces led to the addition of several weights to many of his typefaces; designers working for American Type Founders produced additions to the family. In 1927, Morris Fuller Benton drew Goudy Extra Bold.
Frederic Goudy, one of the best-known and most prolific of type designers, designed, by his own reckoning, 123 faces. Born in Bloomington, Illinois, he worked in various cities before founding the Booklet Press in Chicago in 1895 with equipment bought from Will Bradley. The sale of a set of capitals of his own design to the Bruce Type Foundry, Boston, encouraged him to become a freelance lettering artist. Goudy’s breakthrough with type design came in 1911. He designed Kennerley Old Style for the publishers Mitchell Kennerley on the understanding that he could sell it to the trade. He set up the Village Letter Foundry to cast and sell Kennerley and a titling font, Forum. These established his reputation, and American Type Founders commissioned Goudy Old Style, regarded as one of his finest designs.
Frederic W. Goudy (Goudy Oldstyle)1865–1947 USA
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REFERENCES
TYPEFACE HISTORIESadobe.com
itcfonts.com (Helvetica Neue)
ascenderfonts.com (Century Gothic)
TYPEFACE DESIGNER BIOSAn A-Z of Type Designers By Neil Macmillan
DESIGNAllison Lewis
INFLUENCESThinking with Type
by Ellen Lupton
DESIGNER PHOTOSLinotype
Ascender Fonts (Bell)
Identifont (Slimbach)
TITLE PAGE IMAGESPhotographer - Allison Lewis
DesignAllison Lewis
Cover photosos.noaa.gov
Edited by Allison Lewis
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