The Art of Hand Lettering....

[Robare M. Novou]

....Meets the Art of Unpacking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDd0qx8Pr9s

[Robare M. Novou]

Speaking on the art of hand lettering, I found this link.

http://www.archive.org/details/artofletteringsi00boyc

Not sure if it has been posted before on this site...if it has, I'm sorry for re-posting it.

Download the PDF for your "Virtual Library".

RMN

[Ron Berlier]

Robare, a very interesting book from long ago. Thanks for sharing the link

[Lee Littlewood]

Very nice. I especially like the hands - such elaborate cuffs & sleeves. And of course the discussion of the Boston Roman and the New York Roman:
"New York painters will not admit any style of letter to be superior or even equal to that in vogue in the greatest American city; they consider the Boston style "homely, weak, skinny and effeminate." It must be admitted that the New York style is the bolder of the two, and therefore a little more easily read; in fact, its peculiarities make it entirely different from the Boston letter, so distinct that a person accustomed to it could not fail to regard the Boston style as unsatisfactory; and undoubtedly one great reason why the New York painter cannot endure the Boston letter, and VICE VERSA, is the decided difference in the style of the other, from the one to which he has all his life been used to see."

Whoof. I guess people tended to stay close to home in those days. But that's what it takes to make regional dialects, and that's what we've lost with computerized fonts - my Helvetica or Futura looks just like yours, even if we're 2000 miles apart.

[Robare M. Novou]

'fraid not buddy...my Helvetica looks better than yours...'Cause I know how to Kern.

[Lee Littlewood]

Okay, wise guy, try this game:

http://type.method.ac/?again

I just found this site, they may have some other good games deeper in...

cheers,
lee

[Robare M. Novou]

That is way cool !

I got 86 on the Garamond Kern Text Test

I did about 10 tests all were a perfect 100...except for that Garamond Text Test.

I did not see any Helvetica Text, so I'm quite sure my Helvetica Kerning is still better than yours.

All my love,

Wise Guy