uwmspeccoll:Typography TuesdayPARMENIDES ARCHAIC GREEK TYPEThis week we present examples of Ame
uwmspeccoll:Typography TuesdayPARMENIDES ARCHAIC GREEK TYPEThis week we present examples of American type founder Dan Carr’s archaic Greek typeface named after the ancient Greek philosopher Parmenides of Elea, released in 2000 by Carr’s Golgonooza Letter Foundry in Ashuelot, New Hampshire. Carr designed, cut, and founded the typeface for an 2004 edition of The Fragments of Parmenides printed in Berkeley, California by Peter Koch, with a translation by fellow typographer Robert Bringhurst.These specimens were printed as an insert for Dan Carr’s article “Cutting Parmenides,” published in Matrix 22, Winter 2002, pp. 114-128. The specimen was handprinted at Golgonooza using a text from the Oxford edition of Richmond Lattimore’s line-for-line translation of the Odyssey, with the English printed in Regulus, also designed and cut by Carr. Koch asked Carr to design a typeface with a “somewhat rustic or crude look” and some “rock and roll” put into it. As source materials, Carr used Ionian Greek script (Parmenides was from the Ionian colony of Elea) found in Lillian Jeffrey’s The Local Scripts of Archaic Greek and examples of Ionian Greek inscriptions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In meeting Koch’s requirements, Carr also wanted to design a type that captured Parmenides’s specific way of thinking. Carr writes:Typography is a way of thought, much as poetry is a way of thought… . The typography of different languages and different times can provide useful clues to the thought of the people… . Typography reflects so much of its culture and language that it may be one of the most evocative artefacts of a literature.Matrix 22 was printed by John and Rosalind Randle at the Whittington Press in England in an edition of 825 copies, and is a donation from our friend Jerry Buff.View more posts from Matrix.View other posts relating to the Whittington Press.View our other Typography Tuesday posts -- source link
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