The man who has taught the ABC

By dj misc on April 30, 2008 11:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

“The man who has taught the ABC to his pupils has accomplished a greater deed than a general who has won a battle.”

—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, quoted by Hermann Zapf in About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design, 1970.

an interest in the ‘black art’
a less pretentious name than Optima
there ought to be a Gutenberg monument in Detroit
a great responsibility
The man who has taught the ABC
Vernacular Baton Rouge: FREE TRIP TO HEAVEN
like light through colored glass
XTT Part 4: Numerals and Punctuation
diffuse in the neutral grayness
‘Lemon cocoanut chocolate’
The Family Circus
Super Happy
Then the copper faded into lilac
the yellow day
The red and unhurried miles
Color Worqx
a glottal stop
if it be as Philosophers hold
When the moon is full, our brain is also full
‘the harder the tonality of the name the more efficacious the product in the mind of the physician and the end user’
‘Clumsy and naked’
The ‘bed’
The Rather Difficult Font Game
Thirty Tables of Contents
orangey slices of postadolescent flesh
The orange core of the world
the secret of life
memento mori
XTT Part 3: The ‘Black Art’
a new swoosh deal
our nation’s happiness
the big yellow smiley face
the true road to earthly joy
a never-ending chain-reaction freeway pileup
a cerise shirt
Fool’s Paradise
I used to live on an iceberg
Temporary Village
our visual ray
the warm colors
an amethystine hatchet
domesticity and witchcraft
Equation Bookshelf
the Art of the Business Card
Fold-ins, Past and Present
ABC3D
dots of blue and gray and green
the mean reds
white hair and diamonds
The morning light
Biz Barbie
the Zen doctrine bearing most directly on the tea aesthetic
pure sabi-wabi
one phrase not yet burned
XTT Part 2: Anatomy of a Letterform
Lynda Barry
the most pictures of Jesus I have ever seen in one place
the last two pure perfect white families
the difference between God and a street light
XTT Part 1: The Detection of Types
The Yellow Jade Mushroom
Christianity by fear and by rote
a nervous-breakdown gun
our most valuable tulip
The best games
The histories of vampires and people
two souls in one body
China Facing Olympic Heat
China struggles with Tibetan unrest
Vernacular Baton Rouge: PERSONAL TOUCH
A greenish-white light
A purple sunset
The great globe of the sky
dark eyes
Italian khaki
A.R.
Besten Schriften
Farkitrol®
The green and vivid-coloured world of fruit-gleams
lemons, lemons, innumerable
a universe on fire
bracing their heels against a comma
clear and bright
The multimedia magazine in a box
symbolic thought
the most ringing declaration of independence ever set down
one twig on a giant branching tree of life
The Aurelian
FFFFOUND!
Favorite Typefaces of 2007
the New Rainbow
a scarlet fez
the grey colt
the dim setting of a jewel
light and sound
Indian Street Graphics
Driscoll Reid (Aka: Hørne)
The Four Horsemen
a buff
this year’s Jazzfest poster
the pitiable fashion of those antiquated times
Woman jailed for ‘worshipping tea pot’
everything is going away from us
a name
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul
the new black
The world isn’t made of pen, ink, and paper
that unfailing source of the terrible
Space: The Lost Atlantis
the thorny wilderness
stop twice as long at a semicolon
a blue ground with a white spot
sheet after sheet of silver paper
a very nice heaven
a Semicolon Appreciation Society
the punctuation mark of our era
The impatience of the digital reader
The beauty and wonder of ‘white space’
Takashi Murakami
a digital scribbling democracy
CORNBREAD
o wall
Obay
a huge synthetic, silver orb
the Frisbie Baking Company
the prism of punk
the tuning knob
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Fontastic
the colours were lovely
Smoky Sky
a message of good will
the red of porto, the orange of cointreau, the green of chartreuse, the cloudy yellow of pastis
male plumage
A blue lizard
gray-green eyes
The Peace Symbol Turns Fifty
a history of TV test patterns
Bob the Builder
Wrong Font
the wrong star
Chip Kidd
blog!
Don Cherry in Bombay
a kind of dreaming
Your blog
The best blog in the world
the most beautiful of all American flags
‘Alaska furniture’
that flying white mountain
‘thought-stingers’
Patterns
The War On The War On
Iune Wind
Poppin’
the bark of the root of mandrake
Surf Icing
shrieking and blaspheming colors
an abecedary
scientific fatalism
a single jewel
The great synthesizer
Apple’s original logo
The most important letter forms
one of the most important formal problems in the entire history of lettering
printed material
decorative variations
the ‘black art’
the Beautiful
Gothic scripts
the white space between
the flight of a bird or the gallop of a horse
Saul Steinberg
aesthetic ideals
the best legibility
a fleeting blue
so-called moon
The Wish to Be a Red Indian
Edward Catich
the same ceiling
God’s will
Buddhism
The Lavender Armageddon
a well-pressed Armani suit
The 2007 Periodic Table Printmaking Project
the rise of deco
the marbled endpapers of her journal
2001: A Space Rainbow in Curved Air
a printer ink war
a suspicion of brilliantine
planets and nebulae of cigarette smoke
all pretence of colour
the Romain du Roi
‘What a car!’
the ultimate prison
a cut-glass age
singing the Colombian national anthem
Seadragon and Photosynth
digital publishing
words
in a digital setting
‘How like Monet!’
the conventional colouring of life
a tract of quivering grey
but London was not afraid
Oxford empty
This brilliant poster
a long pause
do not use semicolons
Woody Allen and Windsor Elongated
the green noodle
a coat of many colors
A fine example of a demonstration
Artworker required
A Mnemonic Wallpaper Pattern for Southern Two-Seaters
W.
the fake ink blot
through the red grass
red gold
pink and red
a crystal cage
a flower among stones
Burmese rubies
The ruby laser
the pallor of sand
a world of bioluminescence
Sleeve Heads
the multipliable work ad lib
Carried by the waves
Plastic constituents of particle character, 1958
the letter ‘K’
K
M
Vowels for Wales
famous letters and numbers
an entirely new concept
I am the urn of Tita Vendia
The most beautiful lettering in the world
[T]he medieval i
Iesus Nazarenus
IVLIVS CAESAR and MARCVS AVRELIVS
A Chorale* of Cherokee Night Music As Heard through an Open Window In Summer Long Ago
A flat toothpick
Diamond quality
three million toothpicks
Garamond v Garamond
a mill for making paper
variations on a theme
A serif
Roman [type]
stereotype
'I believe in the Book of Kells!'
Littera scripta manet
the number 26
the 'five-barred gate'
2 and 3
The nine numerals
zero and the place-value system
the little circle
the modern name of zero
the 'figure numbers'
Who could understand such a thing?
The End of the World
Jake Shimakuburu
Number signs
the Hindu-Arabic system
the Flamingo
aqua green, aqua blue, aqua beige, aqua buff, aqua dawn, aqua dusk
Kandy Kolors
Vernacular Baton Rouge: Bottom Line Music
The Use of Slang Punctuation in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968
The hobo
the Black Hobo
A River Runs Through It
ringed by the rainbow
Harry Smith cortometraggio 7
Pull My Daisy
The Mother Road
I Say A Little Prayer
Face the Music
Unaffordable Home Design
Blue Monk
Jazz Casual
A Night in Tunisia
The bee’s knee
=|:-)=
an ‘e’ tax
hints and symbols
Vernacular Baton Rouge: The TURKISH BATHS
a great Mediterranean moment
the Alice-in-Wonderland side of religion
a crock of gold
Real G-g-green Chartreuse
reality in a dream
Word of the Year
An On-Line Color Thesaurus
the poetic title
The word processor
POW...
every picayune punctuation
spectral opposites
White and black
A Wave Under the Moon
Marina Apollonio
ANTIVERT
arts of peace
Op art . . . goes Pop art one better
a world beyond us
WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT?
the glaring greenish-grey eye of Simon
little golden stars twinkled through the glow
still waters
like ingots of gold
GET A DUNE BUGGY
Young America does swing
a bang and a squiggle
Art in letter form
Anybody can draw one letter
All must be in tune
[I]f the alphabet is your hobby
she lived too Fast
Life with Letters
a sparkling with rings
The symbol-making function
the use of symbols
Words forming thought and vice versa
A pair of spectacles is rather like a g
When is an A not an A?
a luxury market
[T]he business of printed lettering
a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl
The colors are inside our brains
HIGH PRIORITY
seeing letters in color
the Glass Bead Game
A River Runs Through It
The new House Industries catalog
diaphanous and precious and white
Mexico
Petit Four
Japanese flowers
Dripping with a tango
whitebright bluebright copperbright
pistachiogreen bubbles of twilight
a primitive revolution
40+ Excellent Freefonts
unusual wallpapers and repeats
skyblue and smokedsalmon and mustardyellow
tinfoil stairs
a green hand
his mauve and lavender portfolio
her dingat
every imaginable color
[T]he universe that we know
the principle of alphabetic writing
Old Semitic
a dome of blending tints
A little green bird
the colour of their skins
the height of impropriety
my collection
How should ‘sans’ be pronounced"
the word ‘serif’
Burma-Vita
Burma-Shave
something to look at
gray elephants
back online!
an historic moment
a media empire
The letter M
What shall we call a “thing”
Modernization
the interval
the interjection Io!
The word punctuation
the period and the comma
a missing twenty-third letter
The Ear
a dazzling sun
Mardis Gras
Paul Rand
Vernacular Baton Rouge, part 5
cities at night casting halo-glows in the sky
Vernacular Baton Rouge 4
This is the space age
why we dance
the night of the full moon
handsome soldiers in pistachio green
"the time of the green spectacles"
white ants
glaring white sunlight
swaths of English flowers
Elizabeth"s head was beginning to swim
An all-metal blonde
Booker loved green
Foe-damned ruby motor
Colourful Allusions, vol. 1
Red rimmed his eyes, blue shadowed his jaws
a tiny revolution
the real scenery
a man called Zaganar
The secret of history of graphic design
Shwedagon
postcards from Burma
"Your handwriting is so round"
instant graphic design education
moonlight
a "purging of the realm according to custom"
moving stairs
The greatest hyphenator ever
Saturday night
the Great White Way
Vernacular Baton Rouge 3
a dark blue mood
Death was in the the dream
a beautiful winking wonder
Shwedagon Pagoda
Bagan
The world"s largest book
The Burmese abugida
sterling insignificance
the people of Burma
Free Burma
lost and forgotten, like sunsets vanished
the letter Q
so far gone!
stomping, rollicking, scintillating, solid, hot, strains
vintage American album cover art
Burma (Myanmar), 1989
a thousand red flambeaux
a big black dance
Earth Noir
Vernacular Baton Rouge 2
What worries me now
Government forces carry away body
Minerva nerveless in Nirvana
on a red stage
a fine prospect
A Magna Carta
Make the logo big
Michael Bierut's portfolio
'əpoɔı̣un sı̣ pooɓ ʇɐɥʍ
Why is The Red Cross, Red'
the traditional Latin name for Switzerland
Akzidenz Grotesk
medium-weight monoline serifless capitals
the vision and spirit of the machine age
the zenith of the transitional style
Caslon Old Style with italic
Claude Garamond
The art and science of the proper and true proportions of the attic letters, which are otherwise called antique letters, and in common speech roman letters
the cancelleresca script
the spaces between the letters
the evolution of alphabet design
Why is Pink a Girl Color and Blue a Boy Color'
Gothic lettering
The value of a book
The games of kings
The watermark
On the Road: The Original Scroll
the pearl was there
and yet you live
New Orleans glowed orange bright
the stars
a handful of crazy stars
where Frisco fogs are born
the manuscripts of the snow
real mental power kicks
the beautiful dream of life
Vernacular Baton Rouge
the full moon
Bernard Maisner
Niels 'Shoe' Meulman
The Caroline miniscule
The codex
The Latin alphabet
art forms of great harmony and beauty
North Semitic writing
the evolution of funerary texts
papyrus, a paperlike substrate
The design flexibility of hieroglyphics
Mesopotamian cylinder seals
a divine scribe
The highest development of cuneiform
early pictographs
two great type designers
printing in Venice
a true 'small-letter' alphabet
writing as compared to drawing
The missing letters
all consonants, no vowels
the Moabite stone
Kyoorius Designyatra
the first Hindu characters
of divine origin
a true phonetic alphabet
the Roman
the Cyrillic
Black Letter

The man who has taught the ABC

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