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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over the course of a hundred nights, a hundred years ago, a dark figure heaved bag after heavy bag off the Hammersmith Bridge into the River Thames.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The man was T.J. Cobden Sanderson, founder of Doves Press and mastermind of the elegant Dove typeface that graced the five volumes of the Doves Bible and dozens of other elegant letterpress books. Sanderson was a friend of William Morris; at the end of the 19th<\/sup><\/span> century, he had christened the Arts & Craft movement that desperately sought to shore up traditional craftsmanship against the rising tide of Industrialism.<\/p>\n

Through the summer of 1916, Sanderson dumped hundreds of pounds of type into the river because death by drowning, he believed, was better than seeing his typeface sold into the slavery of mechanical printing.<\/p>\n

Raised from the Dead\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>A century later, Robert Green, a digital type designer, dredged up <\/a>hundreds of rusted bits of Doves type. Green has spent a lifetime researching the lost typeface, and has recreated it as \u201cthe Doves Type,\u201d available at Typespec<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sanderson\u2019s Doves was based<\/span> on a late 15th century Venetian type, developed not too long after Gutenberg looked to Italian handwriting for the inspiration for his first movable letters. <\/span><\/p>\n

Type designers, it seems, have always been backward-looking. <\/span><\/p>\n

As Frederic W. Goudy said, \u201cThe old fellows had the good ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Distinction and Beauty <\/b><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Goudy was a household name in print shops in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1915 to 1940, he drew more than 125 distinct typefaces, including the inside type for Life <\/i>magazine. Goudy Old Style, he claimed, was inspired by the lettering on a Hans Holbein painting.<\/p>\n

Goudy drew his typefaces freehand, without a compass, a straight-edge, or a French curve. \u201cPrinting is essentially a utilitarian art,\u201d he said, \u201cyet even utilitarianism may include distinction and beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0About Face<\/h3>\n

What, exactly, is a typeface?<\/p>\n

A typeface is the design of a particular alphabet.<\/p>\n

A font is a collection of characters\u2014capital letters, lowercase letters, numerals,and punctuation marks\u2014rendered in one particular size and style. A typeface is usually available in several different fonts, including 12 pt, 10 pt, boldface, italic, Roman.<\/p>\n

Confused? No wonder. Your Word\u00a0pull-down menu has a tab called\u00a0“Font” that offers hundreds of typefaces. You create the fonts yourself\u00a0with the italic, bold, and sizing functions on your keyboard.<\/p>\n

The Face that Launched a Thousand Quips<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Today, even six-year-olds are conversant in typefaces. Coca-Cola and Pepsi have always known that typeface matters, but now Four\u00a0Men and a Truck and the local\u00a0cupcakery are aware of it, too, and so is the student formatting her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 for her first job application and the little boy hammering out invitations to his Hallowe\u2019en party.<\/p>\n

When Comic Sans was released in 1995, some type\u00a0aficionados were so outraged they set up BanComicSans.com, where they sold anti-Comic Sans mugs and T-shirts to help finance a documentary called Comic Sans; Or, the Most Hated Font in the World.<\/i><\/p>\n

Comic Sans Must Die<\/i> went further. It deconstructed the face, glyph by glyph, until the typeface was finally declared officially dead on December 5, 2012. You can witness its demise at ComicSansMustDie.tumblr.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But check the pull-down font menu on your computer: I bet\u00a0Comic Sans is still there, with its goofy round, erratic letters that look like a child\u2019s handprinted sign for selling lemonade at the curb. On Orange Is the New Black<\/em>, <\/i>Piper uses it for her prison newsletter. Pope Benedict XVI used it for the tag lines in his\u00a0online papal photo album. His resignation letter is there, too, printed in the same innocently charming Comic Sans.<\/p>\n

Julia Roberts vs. Uma Thurman<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>I remember firing up my first computer and being vaguely disappointed at the utilitarian Helvetica typeface, but I wouldn\u2019t have gone so far as type designer\u00a0Bruno Maag, who calls Helvetica a \u201ccultural blight. If you think of ice cream, it [Helvetica] is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes, and vegetable fats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Battista, a blogger at Phronk.com<\/a>, champions Univers, also a Swiss design. \u201cThere\u2019s no fuss and schmuss about it, it\u2019s a clean, tight design. If Helvetica is Julia Roberts\u2014pretty enough\u2014then Univers is Uma Thurman\u2014really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the Winner is . . .<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Typeface and typography\u2014the art and technique of arranging typeface letters to make written language legible, readable, and appealing\u2014<\/span>can speak volumes. They won\u2019t change the meaning of a text, but they can give the words a unique tone. They can even make us read words differently.<\/p>\n

Just ask Warren Beatty. His befuddled squint at the printed card he lifted from the envelope is now seared\u00a0into Oscar history. The typography on that card was so bad, it took the poor man several minutes to realize that he\u2019d been handed the wrong card and that the lovely Faye Dunaway had announced the wrong winner. No wonder: the category “Best Picture” is almost illegible in teensy-weensy script way down at the bottom.<\/p>\n

Not Finished Until it\u2019s Read<\/h3>\n

As a writer, I believe in the saying that a book isn\u2019t finished until it\u2019s read, until the explosions that go off in my mind are set off in a new way in the mind of the person reading my words. In this digital age, a book isn\u2019t fully designed, either, until the ereader or tablet is in the reader\u2019s hands, until they\u2019ve gone to Settings and adjusted the face and font to suit themselves.<\/p>\n

Writing took ideas out of the head and turned them into objects built of words. As the poet-typographer Robert Bringhurst puts it, \u201cWriting domesticated language.\u201d The alphabet condensed complex images into 26 shapes that have sound and meaning only because we have agreed they do. Mechanical type substituted individually drawn letters for standard shapes that could be mass produced.<\/p>\n

Now digitization has made words ephemeral, without any physical substance at all.<\/p>\n

These days, no one has to dump a typeface into the river. A stroke of a\u00a0key will make it disappear.[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1477364431886{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ededed !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-radius: 2px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

What’s your\u00a0favourite typeface?<\/h3>\n

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