I am in Brazil.
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Paulo Caparica Junior
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Marion Gunn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In which country (if any) is your work set? Language choice can influence
> choice of font. Also, if you are thinking of the mid-19th century, you have
> a choice of ancient countries (Ireland, Scotland) or new countries (Italy
> and Germany are hardly 150 years old, for example) so fonts typically used
> then in those two new-born or about to be born countries might seem
> futuristic to a 19th century reader, only to squish or elongate them a
> little.
> mg
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> Scríobh 05/05/2011 19:40, Paulo Junior:
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> It seems that the early unadorned sans faces were regarded as a novelty
>> instead of a futurist thing. Only at the turn of the century, plain
>> geometric were considered modern. Grotesque is a traditional name for
>> sans,
>> but Egyptian? Today egyptians are triangular serif faces. Futura is a
>> cool
>> name, but this was smack inside the 20th century.
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>> Paulo Caparica Junior
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