The fight over the Doves: A legendary typeface gets a second life

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21591793-legendary-typeface-gets-second-life-fight-over-doves

by rayshan • 13 years ago

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rayshan• 13 years ago

Doves for purchase on Typesec here, £40: http://typespec.co.uk/doves-type/

hyp0• 13 years ago

Egotism, the genius and the tragedy.

I think he'd be horrified at his type, once used for the bible, now being used for posters.

robertjwebb• 13 years ago

Go incognito if the Economist says you're over your article limit (or delete the relevant cookies).

Mithaldu• 13 years ago

I found myself amusingly insulted by seeing ß called a "German esset", which should at the very least be "Eszett".

DanBC• 13 years ago

It's a beautiful bit of type. That print at the top is lovely.

Does any digital system recreate the analogue nature of that type of printing yet? I guess this would be like Instagram, but for fonts.

Both Cobden-Sanderson and Walker were part of the group of artists and craftsmen that gathered around William Morris

This group also invented pebble-dash. It's bizarre when you look at a Cotswold manor and see a bit of pebble-dash.

ChuckMcM• 13 years ago

Kind of like the story about Bliss and his iconography. I have never understood the idea of destroying something you love because someone else might benefit from it.

ExpiredLink• 13 years ago

The Medea complex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea

crawfordcomeaux• 13 years ago

I wonder how well an automated recreation would work. What would come from taking scans of works using the typeface and taking the intersection of each instance of each letter?

eru• 13 years ago

Intersection might be the wrong operation. In general, you'd be solving an `inverse problem' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_problem).

shocks• 13 years ago

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JasonFruit• 13 years ago

Try incognito, or private browsing, or whatever your browser calls it.

TylerE• 13 years ago

Interesting. Not $65 interesting though.

The fight over the Doves: A legendary typeface gets a second life

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