Type News is a live, autonomous, aggregating system that sucks up then spits out all the latest news from the type industry. Updated every 5 minutes, it delivers a timeline of all things typographic from a number of popular outlets. The incoming news is filtered into three groups: Images, Twitter, and Blog Posts. Titles, tags, and permalinks are cataloged and stored for future searching or browsing.

While institutional repositories are proficient in managing text-based research such as articles, books, and theses, they are not yet attuned to the requirements of images and time-based media. The Kultur project aims to change this by creating a flexible multimedia repository that will be able to showcase a wide range of outputs, from digital versions of painting, photography, film, graphic and textile design, to records of performances, shows and installations.

In the font forging industry, “nefarious and evil knock-off clones” (Bruno Steinert) are customary. Two forging methods are applied:

1. Monotype Method: This font forging method at first selects single letters (“mono” + “type”) and forges these letters, and then it forges trademark and copyright notices.

2. Linotype Method: This font forging method does not waste time by the forging of single letters (the “line of type” remains unaltered), but straightaway forges trademark and copyright notices.

The report Forgers.pdf (155 KB, 9 pages) informs prosecutors and judges about the font forging methods in the font forging industry.

Latin, Germanic Languages, Greek, Hebrew and Linguistics

Materials compiled by David J. Perry

Rye High School, Rye, New York

Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. Since it may be used to prepare materials for publication, it also contains features that are required for high-quality typography, such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety of punctuation and space characters. It may also be used to document and discuss the features of Unicode that are applicable to the these disciplines, as we work to help colleagues understand the value (and limitations) of Unicode.

Cardo is freely available (subject to the terms of use below).

ORIGIN & DESIGN

This font is my version of a typeface cut for the Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius and first used to print Pietro Bembo’s book De Aetna. This font has been revived in modern times under several names (Bembo, Aetna, Aldine 401). I chose it mainly because it is a classic book face, suitable for scholarship, and also because it is easier to get various diacritics sized and positioned for legibility with this design than with some others. I added a set of Greek characters designed to harmonize well on the page with the Roman letters as well as many other characters useful to scholars. The Hebrew characters are designed to match those used in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia as closely as possible and so have no claim to originality.