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John Baskerville
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Good Housekeeping
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Mrs. Eaveswas created by designer Zuzana Licko in 1996.
A revival of the classic Baskerville ypeface, Mrs. Eaves relecs
Licko’s interes in “loosening” up Baskerville by reducing contras
while keping the ypeface open and light. Mrs Eaves is named ater
Sarah Eaves, the woman who became John Baskerville’s wife. As
Baskerville was sexing up his printing and ype business, Mrs. Eaves
moved in wih him as a live-in housekeper, eventually
becoming his wife ater the death of her 0rs husband, Mr. Eaves.
Hints of the Helvetica Neue ypeface can be found throughout the
series as well. Mrs Eaves is a revival of the ypes of English
printer and punchcuxer John Baskerville, and is related to
Baskerville ypefaces.
Good Housekeeping
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The Nitty-Gritty
Like Baskerville, Mrs Eaves has a near vertical sress (the
direcion in which a
curved sroke changes weight), departing rom the old syle model.
Identiding
characers, similar to Baskerville’s ypes, are the lowercase g
wih is open lower
counter and swashlike ear.
Both the roman and ialic uppercase Q have a lowing swashlike
tail.
gQCWG
The uppercase C has seri% at top and at the boxom.
There is no serif at the apex of the central juncion in
uppercase W.
The uppercase G has a sharp pur sumesing a vesigal serif.
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The Nitty-Gritty
The ialic e has a very small counter of compared to that of an
ialic a.
The uppercase J falls well belowthe baseline.
e aJAET
The uppercase A has a veryhigh crossbar.
The uppercase E has an extendedlower arm.
The uppercase T has very wide arms.
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The Fun Stuff
isn’t i that the
ligatures have
ligatures
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The Fun Stuff
IRONICworddosn’tany?
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0sh
Conjoined Twins
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zLigatures
have several funcions in the sexing of ype. Some ligatures are
necessary to avoid the collision of particular lexer
combinations.
For example, the pacing problem bewen the “f” and “i” characers
can be resolved by replacing the pair wih a separately designed “0”
ligature.
The joining of lexers, of course, comes rom our alphabet’s roots
in handwriten forms. When the alphabet was subsequently adapted to
print in the form of movable ype, i continued to include many
ligatures. Eventually for the sake of expediency, all but the mos
necessary ligatures were dropped rom the sandard characer set. Even
today, the sandard characer set accommodates only the mos common
ligatures;
0 l * + a o
fish fish0sh
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Conjoined Twins + Triplets
K L M N OA B C D EU V W X YF G H I JP Q @ S TZ + * & R
1 2 34 5 9 7 8 6
^ % $
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Yours by this hand: and to se how he prizes the fOlish woman
your wife
!She gave i him, and he hath gven i his
whore.
Not-So Dearest Shakespeare
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Tarry a litle, there is something else.
This bond doth gve the here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are “a pound of lesh.”
Not-So Dearest Shakespeare
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amen icy cinemaBorrow or rob?CAMP MACDR. AWKWARDEw! Eat a
ewe?FLEE TO ME, REMOTE ELFGoddamn mad dog!harass sarahI prefer
pi
Words!
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Zeu
s w
as d
eifi
ed,
saw
Su
ez
Yo,
ban
ana
boy!
WA
LM
AR
T’S
TR
AM
LA
W
UFO
TO
FUTo
o ho
t to
hoot
STE
P O
N N
O P
ET
S
More Words!
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Really Complex Sentences
The exodus of jazzy pigeons is craved by squeamish
walkers.
A mad boxer shot a quick,
gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy
opponent.
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That Usually Make No Sense
Uphill joggng will tax pounding heart muscle very quickly;
bexer to be lazy!
Ebenezer unexpecedly
bamed wo tranquil aardvarks wih his
jifd vacuum cleaner.
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T T T T T T T T T T T TT
A
S
Q
B
F
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
A A A A A A A A
B B B B B B B B B B
F F F F F F F F F F
S S S S S S S S S S S S
Let’s End on WingDings, okay?
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