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Post #1410729
2024-07-12 06:50 UTC
Roughly hand-bound in blank covers, two specimen books nonchalantly contain a wealth of fascinating type history, from both India and the West. When we first acquired these catalogs, we were struck by the range of styles and scripts represented, and knew there was a story to tell. So we sent our Indian correspondent, @tanyatypes, to shine a light on some Diamonds. https://letterformarchive.org/news/diamond-wooden-type-works/
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@letterformarchive@typo.social 2024-07-12 07:22
One surprise that first drew us to the catalogs: some of the faces shown are wood type conversions of designs originally made in film and rubdown formats of the 1960s–70s. Diamond shows loose interpretations of at least six late-20th-century typefaces. For example, Davida (https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/6793/davida) with shadow, and Spring (https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31493/spring). They aren’t mere facsimiles of their sources; Diamond produced their own size-specific variants, redrawing smaller fonts to be broader and more open.