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Kit·Blog Notes Comments — vlad on “Lower”

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:37:41 +0200

Reply no.: 1. On 16 Nov 2007, 2:37 PM, vlad wrote: ]]>

i would steal some sheep when dealing with some bold condensed type, usually on headings...

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Kit·Blog Notes Comments — Kit on “Lower”

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:53:32 +0200

Reply no.: 2. On 16 Nov 2007, 3:53 PM, Kit wrote: ]]>

A bit of research reveals that I misquoted Mr. Goudy. The original quotation goes like this:

Anyone who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

What can I say, Vlad, sheep are not what they used to be...

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Kit·Blog Notes Comments — Stefan on “Lower”

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:09:09 +0200

Reply no.: 3. On 16 Nov 2007, 5:09 PM, Stefan wrote: ]]>

Hmm...

Sheep make me think of Eric Gill O_o

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Kit·Blog Notes Comments — Kit on “Lower”

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:26:07 +0200

Reply no.: 4. On 16 Nov 2007, 5:26 PM, Kit wrote: ]]>

Really? How come?

I mean, sheep and Erik Spiekermann is an obvious connection, but Gill...?

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Kit·Blog Notes Comments — Kit on “Lower”

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:50:39 +0200

Reply no.: 5. On 16 Nov 2007, 5:50 PM, Kit wrote: ]]>

By the way, here's the context that inspired Goudy's famous exclamation:

In 1936, Frederic Goudy was in New York City to receive an award for excellence in type design. Upon accepting a certificate¹, he took one look at it and declared that “Anyone who would letterspace black letter would steal sheep.”

¹ It seems the handlettered certificate of excellence was set in a heavily letterspaced uppercase blackletter.

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Kit·Blog Notes Comments — Stefan on “Lower”

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:23:51 +0200

Reply no.: 6. On 17 Nov 2007, 5:23 PM, Stefan wrote: ]]>

The title of Erik Spiekermann's book was actually a joke regarding Gill's appetite for diverse things (the wrong sort of appetite) O_o

One of these things where sheep ...

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Kit·Blog Notes Comments — Kit on “Lower”

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:00:04 +0200

Reply no.: 7. On 17 Nov 2007, 6:00 PM, Kit wrote: ]]>

Dear God, that's true. The quote was changed from “copulate” to “steal,” it seems.

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