In other art invite news, I loved the concept for this group show, using a diagram showing the parts of a robin for the names of the artists in the Round Robin Collective.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Identify that typeface
While we're on the subject of art (brilliant woman, BTW, that Andrea Deszö!), there's something I quite liked about this art invitation at the Observatory Room; obviously some of the typography could have been better, but I like the type choices (Garamond, Caslon, Letter Gothic), and the overall concept. But what is the typeface for "Entymologia"? Closes today, and sadly I didn't quite make it out to Brooklyn to see it.
In other art invite news, I loved the concept for this group show, using a diagram showing the parts of a robin for the names of the artists in the Round Robin Collective.
In other art invite news, I loved the concept for this group show, using a diagram showing the parts of a robin for the names of the artists in the Round Robin Collective.
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What an organic conversation (BTW, Andrea Dezsö also collects and features insects in her work). The robin invite is witty (there's some sort of rock/paper/scissors invite thing going on; bugs spread pollen; robins eat bugs etc.
The letters in "Entomologia" have Trade Gothic Bold Condensed Twenty attributes but I have to do a bit more sleuthing.
Hi this is Maura, interning for Beth. We were looking at the poster for Entomologia, it seems like the body copy maybe Adobe Caslon? The A in observatory has a nick in it just like the Caslon face. The numbers also seem to match.
Nice images on the blog!
Maura, you're totally right. It is Caslon, not Garamond. The T doesn't have the telltale spur that Garamond does, and the A does indeed have that Caslon nick!
I was looking at the o's...never a good letter to look at when trying to figure out a typeface. The post has been amended!
You'd think I didn't just give a midterm on this subject! Good thing I didn't take it!
Yes, a spur is for curved letters like G and S. A beak is on T and E.
My favorite bit of typography nomenclature, though, has to be the "tittle", which is the dot on the i and j.
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