RE: OT: A Note on the Type

["Janoff, Steve" <sjanoff -at- illumina -dot- com>]

I appreciated Tammy's fresh outlook.  It's always nice to look at things
with new eyes, discovering something for the first time.  I also
appreciated the information.  It never grows old.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Laura Lemay
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:23 AM
To: info -at- spectrumwritingllc -dot- com
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: OT: A Note on the Type

Technically, this is known as a colophon, and it has been around  
almost as long as printing has.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colophon_%28publishing%29


On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Spectrum Writing wrote:

> All,
>
> I am an avid reader (Grisham, Cornwell, Turow, Crichton, etc.) and  
> an avid
> historian as well and generally pay little attention to all the  
> front/back
> matter in the book that talks about whom the author wishes to thank,  
> etc.,
> but this one note that was in the back of a book that I am currently  
> reading
> (Lucy, by Laurence Gonzalez) really caught my eye!  Evidently, the  
> author
> really likes all aspects of being a writer and it really illustrates  
> the
> lineage of our profession.
>
> A Note on the Type:
>
> This book was set in Adobe Garamond. Designed for the Adobe  
> Corporation by
> Robert Slimback, the fonts are based on types first cut by Claude  
> Garamond
> (c 1480-1561). Garamond was a pupil of Geoffry Tory and is believed  
> to have
> followed the Venetian models, although he introduced a number of  
> important
> differences and it is to him that we owe the letter we know as "old  
> style."
> He gave to his letters a certain elegance and feeling of movement  
> that won
> their creator an immediate reputation and the patronage of Francis I  
> of
> France.
>
> TVB
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Owner/Principal
> Spectrum Writing, LLC
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
> info -at- spectrumwritingllc -dot- com

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