Pleased with works!

[jocelyn plummer]

Blimey, Penners is a veritable fund of information--how interesting. I had no idea lettering, kerning, is so technical---useful when you need new glasses like I do :wink:

 

[Penners]

Who knew it was so complicated!

You bet it is! And the more you learn about it, the more you realise how little you have learned!

This little video gives you a very potted history and is quite fun. Keep your eyes open for Bodoni!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgIkxAfJsk

 

[LadyArowana]

http://xkcd.com/1015/

 

[Penners]

:lol:
True!

 

[DJH]

I very much like the font you have chosen but I have to say the kerning and spacing of both the letters and words don’t sit easy to me. I think they are all too far apart. Trajan is your only man Joce! The lettering on the bottom tablet on Trajan’s column is sublime and the later lettering on the Appian Way tablet with the pointy upside down arrow head thingies (Penners will know the name for them as he probably did them... :lol: !) between each word are, in my opinion , much better than the spacing you propose.

Seeing Spock a few posts back made me wonder if you had considered ‘Live Long and Prosper’… in Latin of course.

Are those lead planters outside your door? I only ask as I made the original patterns and aluminium dies of that pattern for a company who made them in various forms, round, rectangular, square etc. Somebody took a casting off to the far East and had it reproduced them in faux lead (resin) and sold them back into the UK. There is a small defect in the moulding used for the centre panel that slipped past me when I made the pattern!!

Doug

 

[Penners]

Trajan

Yup - Trajan was so good at writing that he had his own column. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

(Well nobody else is going to laugh, so I might as well.)

Actually, there is a typeface called Trajan. It's a Roman face, albeit designed in 1989. I find it very pleasing.

http://www.identifont.com/similar?2J2

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Trajan's inscription is indeed the standard by which all others should be judged, but it's not a face that was much used during the period of Joce's house. The intended effect is that of the carved street names in Bath and the Edinburgh New Town, which Bodoni suits well.

 

[Zebra]

Yup - Trajan was so good at writing that he had his own column.

I think I met his horse once too.

 

[LadyArowana]

Seeing Spock a few posts back made me wonder if you had considered ‘Live Long and Prosper’… in Latin of course.



Doug

It's funny you should mention that. I suggested "Live Long and Prospurrr" with a Starfleet flag and a couple of stone Klingon targs for either side of the front door to Joce in the Other Place, rather surprisingly she wasn't keen :roll:

 

[Gareth Hughes]

How could she possibly want stone targs when she's got the real thing?

 

[LadyArowana]

Tsk Tsk Gareth, you know that only one of those is a targ!

 

[Penners]

They just look like moggies to me.

 

[LadyArowana]

They just look like moggies to me.

:shock: :shock: :shock: You do know that Joce is going to read that, and that she is quite handy with the voodoo doll and pins? :lol:

 

[Penners]

She doesn't scare me - I know she's a pussy cat really.

Whereas the furry wotsits are just moggies.

 

[DJH]

Yea...brave talk Penners. Bet you wouldn't face up one of my moggies... :shock:

I see your point Gareth. Bodini is a nice font and the pictures you show illustrate my point about spacing between words. It just doesn't look right I think to have exaggerated spaces between words especially on a low level convex surface. I would go with a single space between each word and, adding up the number of letters including spaces (21) I'd then position the C in CRESCAT centrally over the door and set the letters out to left and right from there.

Great minds think alike Lady A...

Doug

 

[Penners]

I would go with a single space between each word and, adding up the number of letters including spaces (21) I'd then position the C in CRESCAT centrally over the door and set the letters out to left and right from there.

Ah, but that assumes all kerning to a letter-width - which it is not. And even it were, which letter?

 

[DJH]

See Trajan for spacing. It's all down to rectangles you know. Modern kerning came in with hot metal lettering didn't it?

Since when did sentences start with 'And' ? I'm sure I was taught that was not correct...times change though I suppose.

Doug

 

[Penners]

Since when did sentences start with 'And' ? I'm sure I was taught that was not correct...times change though I suppose.

You are quite correct, according to the strict rules of grammar. However, we creative writers (!) often break grammatical rules for reasons of rhythm, effect or impact, innit.

(Adopts snootiest expression and tries to sound intelligent)

 

[Penners]

Modern kerning came in with hot metal lettering didn't it?

No, hand set wooden type came with kerning long before hot metal appeared.

 

[DJH]

Yea you're nearly right. Hot metal type was cast from wooden patterns.

Doug