Hang on, did I miss something or is this completely OT (off topic). Bible's, Gutenberg, print type faces...
Web Standards...? William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/1/30 Simon Pascal Klein <kle...@klepas.org> > > On 30/01/2009, at 4:16 AM, Fred Ballard wrote: > > I've read that the Gutenberg bible is formatted without spaces. It's >> interesting that they aren't essential to reading. >> > > I believe this is due to the inherent markings of the tops and bottoms of > the glyphs, particularly the lowercase glyphs. B42s were all set with a very > Germanic textura blackletter which feature strong diamond-shaped markings > that allowed the eye to follow the line of these markings. Further, back > then with the cost of paper and vellum it was entirely uneconomical and even > more expensive to print (or write) with what we today consider an ample > leading (line-height). In addition Gutenberg let his hyphens lie in the > margins (what we know as hanging punctuation) further adding to the blocky, > well-defined lines. > > In fact, the reason why serif typefaces are easier to read (at least when > printed—it is true that at small sizes on screen and with poor hinting serif > typefaces quickly become more difficult to read); it is the serifs or > 'little feet' on glyphs that allow our eye to dance in saccades along a line > by telling us where that glyph starts and ends in the vertical space. Add > all the characters up, particularly the lowercase ones, and the eye will > follow all the serifs forming a concise line. > > > I've also read that it's all uniformly blocked out with so many characters >> to a line, so many lines to a column, two columns to a page, and ending with >> a full page. In a sense, one of first books (it isn't actually the first) >> ever printed was the most perfectly formatted ever. >> > > Indeed. Gutenberg's first bible (actually a Gutenberg Bible consists of two > volumes, each 1280-odd pages: Old Testament, and part of the New Testament > with the second continuing where the first let off—they were divided again > because of economical reasons), and the rest of the series that followed > (180 in total I believe), were divided into two columns, spanning mostly 42 > lines. > > > Kind regards. > > —Pascal > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Simon Pascal Klein <kle...@klepas.org> >> wrote: >> >> On 30/01/2009, at 2:15 AM, <kie...@humdingerdesigns.co.uk> < >> kie...@humdingerdesigns.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Join the club, I've been commissioned to do a local website and the guy >> was hoping he'd be able to get a quick bug-fix on his current with a bit of >> updating. >> >> Unfortuanetly the css was akin to the Guttenberg Bible; completely >> unreadable and would have been a pig to translate. Not to mention, a strange >> and chaotic mishmash of tables, frames and weird proprietary software >> markup. Some clients (and this one did, thank god) need to realize that when >> the original is written by a back street bedroom "I can do that" wannabe, >> they're paying for someone who can stick a few words and pics up and not >> much else. >> >> Wel, I for one, relish at the idea of getting my hands on a Gutenburg >> Bible and reading it… well analysing the lettering and type rather, but hey. >> :-) >> >> >> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On >> Behalf Of James Jeffery >> Sent: 29 January 2009 14:13 >> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >> Subject: Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :( >> >> [...] >> >> --- >> Simon Pascal Klein >> Graphic & Web Designer >> >> Web: http://klepas.org >> E-mai: kle...@klepas.org >> Twitter: @klepas; http://twitter.com/klepas >> >> >> Kaffee und Kuchen. >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> > > --- > Simon Pascal Klein > Graphic & Web Designer > > Web: http://klepas.org > E-mai: kle...@klepas.org > Twitter: @klepas; http://twitter.com/klepas > > > Kaffee und Kuchen. > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
