frontispieces in old books

Another example of frontispieces in old books 

The book is a 1937 reprint of a 1821 edition of this work by the 19th c. Writer n poet H.W.Longfellow 

Heres a extreme closeup of part of the title page 

WITHOUT GLAIDNESS

 #dunbar #poem #scotspoetry #typography #williamdunbar #inkscape

WITHOUT GLAIDNESS is the refrain of a poem by William Dunbar 

Copyright Julie Vaux 2021

While the centuries old poem is public domain what I am claiming copyright to is the typographic design and while this is someone else's font I used Inkscape to make certain modifications wanted to give it a handwritten look but feeling using a Gothic or uncial font would be way too cliched.

As usual I have applied and combined 2 or 3 different filters .

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NOVEMBER @)@!

 #november #2021 Headers

This is goin up on my Patreon

Isn't it wonderful what you can do in #inkscape with one word many fonts and filters !

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EARLY BILINGUAL TEXT

 #bilingultext #early print book  #german #latin 

Here's another example of an early printed book with bilingual text. The coloring may have been added by hand or by woodblocks over the printing. 

1499 PRINTED PSALTER

 #psalter #earlyprintedbook #german #latin

GERMAN PSALTER - EARLY PRINTED BOOK 

 

This one caught my eye while browsing for new images to share because it was printed in Latin but with a German translation. It is a beautiful example of typeface design and a practical legible layout !

Note though while the font includes W the printer or writer has used V for u as well as umlaut U and the "LONG" form of S but v if the v is initial in some words ! 

Woodcut J

 #woodcut #letterJ #15thcentury #initial #typography 

WOODCUT J AND 

July J and some thoughts on books and blogging.

Those who have been following glyphika for a while may have noticed I sometimes use the initial letter of a month as inspiration for themes? And it is July.

J as a letter form may have changed out as a lengthened I but it soon developed ornate forms like this one from a French 15th century woodcut illustration for a book. 

One reason for these ornate wide forms may have been that some woodcut illustrations had color added by hand or simply that the carving and  inking process for wood followed for less detail than the so to be introduced metal engraving plates? 

Another thought although fully colored illuminated manuscripts were luxury items for the wealthy there were varying grades of book and text copying from the fully painted Book of Hours of the wealthy through to copies of texts with just a few pages colored or just initial letters to copies that were just ink on paper or black and white drawings with no color.

Though these cheapest copies were expensive which is why we see images of private libraries with only one or two shelves of books! Such as this German painting of St Luke !

Printed books supported literacy. Gutenbergs press might there was a boom on woodcut production and artists designing for them since publishers soon realised there was a demand of pictures plus words not just for pamphlets and newsheet but a variety of books.

And even further ...

this morning I am typing on a laptop into a blogging template. No ink No paper. So Google and the Internet and tagging and yet still just one scribe working on a page! 

LOVE ABIDES

 LOVE ABIDES

Something new I designed recently 

Hope you like it? 

Copyright J. Vaux 2021

A larger version of this is available on merch from my Red Bubble 

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Yes Greek has Uncial and Minuscule Too

 YES GREEK HAS UNCIAL AND MINUSCULE TOO

#greek #uncial #minuscule #GreekAlphabet 

Going from my older files over summer I found a folder full of scans from an now thoroughly out of print book which I'm not sure has been properly digitized so ...

Here are the Uncial Cursive and Minuscule forms of Greek letters 

I believe whether you are a student of #typography or #palaeography you will find something of interest?

The curious case of Zero

 THE CURIOUS CASE OF ZERO.

This is the Gwalior Inscription from India which has the oldest known example of ZERO.

There are other inscriptions from various cultures in which zero is represented by a blank space or a dot but the Indians were the first to use zero as part of a number system consistently. 

Their use rapidly spread across Asia and North Africa and reached Europe via the happy accident of an certain Italian Mathematician visiting Algeria and discovered their use.

This is what Fibonacci wrote about them.

Roughly translated from the Latin Nine figures of india ... sign ) that arabs call zephir 

Zephir contracted in popular usage to our modern zero.

However a point who else has noticed when typographers design fonts they don't always give as much attention to the numbers as the letters?

This is 0 on my keyboard.

This is O 

0 - O 

About the only difference in most fonts and calligraphy manuals too is that the 0 is narrower?

I and J

Its July so I'm going thru my files looking for things with a J theme. You may be aware that the letter J developed from the  I letterform. Here's a comparision of the letterforms to illustrate this. 

Showcard Gothic plus Chrome Filter Inkscape Demo

#showcardGothic #font #chromefilter, #chrome #inkscape


This demo created with inkscape is the Chrome Filter over the letter C

Join me for future posts and demos 

as I do this years sequence of working my way thru the ABC

 with Inkscape Filter combos 

More Easter art as Layout Design Example!

MORE EASTER ART AND A QUESTION

Folks doing a lot of overtime at PT job n no ideas for quickie posts so I hope you don't mind more EASTER ART. It is at least typography and layout related. Lovely example of  double columns with ornament and frame ! Even if you hate Easter scenes it is a gorgeous and beautiful layout too!

Also colors look how they get pale and mid blues to work with browns by also using red!

What can we learn from this to apply to modern web page design?

Will the weird medley of tags  in the labels dialog box backfire?

This is by the Limbourg Bros !

Next time hopefully more bevels

I'm trying to think of  combos I havnt tested yet to share with you !

Something for Next Sunday

#easter #2020 #eastersunday #bevel #inkscape #demo #bevel

I redid an older piece of Easter Typography with three simple edits
Change of Font
Change of Color
Bevel with a Raised Border

I'm  not sure where I'll also post this ? My DeviantArt or Patreon?

Bold Alphas

BOLD ALPHAS 

#inkscape #demo #typography

A is for Alpha and Alpha is A and here is a selection of Bold and Heavy and Wide A letter forms. All of these are the same font size despite their appearance on the page.

for my next demo I may compare Bold to Italic forms 

The Handmaid's Tale

I'm taking  break from the ABC Demos to finish off #patreon rewards including this

well in a way its still an #inkscape #demo of how useful Inkscape is for a variety of purposes.

My ART #patreon is https://www.patreon.com/JVartndesign

My new Patreon header !

What do you think of this?

its my new header for https://www.patreon.com/JVartndesign

BEVEL DEMO

#inkscape #demo #bevel

INKSCAPE has a whole submenu under #Filter for Bevel

Here's a sampler

With some of these I would suggest duplicating the bottom text layer shown on the top line and then adding the Bevel filter to the duplicated layer or adding drop shadow in Inkscape or Gimp ?

Also avoid gradient fills and use heavier fonts and plain strong colors unless you're doing a really big  PRINT banner and have a very plain background?

Joining J

#typography letter J #inkscape

I've been playing with letter forms again.

I used #inkscape to generate 2 vector objects a sanserif J n a heavyweight bold J and then I moved and modified the two objects into one. and did a bit of tweaking with nodes and paths.

I'm sharing this cos I would like to see how other far more experienced and skilled typographers would take this further. Next time I'll show you a few more changes I made.
Send feedback or edit suggestions please !

Romans uploads to DeviantArt

You can download this and other FREE png files from my

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Easter Thanks

For those of my followers who are NOT religious heres a #free download you can get from my #deviantart site

https://jvartndesign.deviantart.com/art/thanks2018A-738253093