Dan Reynolds

New-ish Wuppertaler and a research associate the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. I teach typography and design stuff but spend most of my time looking into late-19th and early-20th-century German typefounding.

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2024-09-25 09:10:55

I’m about to switch jobs, so I’m cleaning files off a computer I need to give back. Going through the unsorted files on the Desktop, I found this image. I’ve probably posted it before, but I can’t help posting it again!
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/197/401/755/659/893/original/4827ade81fa13354.jpeg

2024-09-14 09:31:38

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@npub1r2h…srzq That is nice, of course, but this was his best piece!
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/135/198/649/832/492/original/a3f824798f9e0ee5.png

2024-09-14 07:57:07

If you like Hermann Eidenbenz – and, I mean, who doesn’t – there are some works form him and his students in the Forum Gestaltung, located inside Magdeburg‘s former Kunstgewerbeschule. He taught in the building from 1926 until 1932.
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/134/830/829/333/356/original/0d537f9450e34ec6.jpeg
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/134/830/883/228/552/original/97cc171192096b24.jpeg
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/134/830/930/882/831/original/62337dbc05de0d67.jpeg

2024-09-09 15:39:46

Does anyone here ever visit the Pennsylvania Historical Society in Philadelphia?

2024-08-25 16:51:09

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@npub1zp6…d8he I confirm that they are excellent!

2024-08-24 12:49:41

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@npub1urz…39sc It is really breathtaking. I love it!

2024-08-24 09:06:46

Hey fediverse, my family and I have just moved to #Wuppertal. This is a new place for me and I still don’t know much about it yet. Please hit me up with your favorite bookstores and cafes. Bonus points if you can point me towards people working at the uni here, in media studies or the media design parts! 🙏

2024-08-11 08:22:18

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@npub1phu…ufs3 Es dauerte doch etwas mehr als zwei Wochen, aber jetzt sind alle Fotos im Netz!

2024-08-11 08:21:21

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By “all,” alas, I mean all punches that are not wrapped up in paper envelopes. But most envelopes are named and their contents could be viewed in-person in Berlin, or maybe even photographed at a future date.

2024-08-11 08:20:02

I’m wary of “quoting” myself but in April, I posted that half the punches from the Berlin Decker/Reichsdruckerei foundry had been photographed and placed online. If you click on the link in my older toot, you will now see photos of all the punches.
https://typo.social/@typeoff/112337147968322797

2024-08-04 09:12:34

The thick envelope has just come in the mail.
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/902/977/281/850/976/original/1b39e43410bb6897.jpeg

2024-08-04 08:29:36

Periodic reminder that those of us outside the United States can’t access a great deal of the content on HathiTrust.

2024-08-01 07:39:26

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@npub13g5…rpv3 Oh that sounds like a tremendous mistake.

2024-07-17 07:32:49

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@npub1g83…dsge I think that’s very likely. But maybe he didn’t mind them as much, either 🤷‍♂️

2024-07-17 06:41:29

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@npub1g83…dsge The new typographers were big Genzsch & Heyse fans. Early Tschichold also recommended one of its serif faces for similar reasons.
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/72956/fridericus-parlaments-antiqua

2024-07-16 06:42:09

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@npub1l76…q02y So there was a few for matrix production (which I assume included punchcutting), a design fee for characters in which no model was provided, and the cost of the cast fonts themselves.

2024-07-15 16:22:34

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@npub1swg…yl4f On the few occasions I’ve received manuscripts from French authors, full word spaces had always been keyed in between those punctuation marks and words.

2024-07-14 06:48:34

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I don’t know what Theinhardt himself would have charged. But in 1855, his justified matrices sold for about three times as much, if you go by purchasing-power tables.

2024-07-13 20:12:56

In the early 1890s, after Ferdinand Theinhardt had retired, his former foundry charged 60 Pfennig per letter in punchcutting costs for “custom typefaces.”
That was likely comparable to other Berlin foundries’ prices.
1890s currency conversion is difficult but, at that time, Berlin university students working on research projects were paid 60 Pfennig per hour!
Virtually no punch could have been cut that quickly, so this says something about how little punchcutter labor was valued then.

2024-07-05 16:25:41

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@npub187d…gz6d Interpretive Dance

2024-07-05 16:07:38

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@npub187d…gz6d So far it is not a game but a theater piece

2024-06-30 11:05:02

The Timeless Child/Flux storylines were better than all of RTD2 so far, even though his specials and this season were alright. #doctorwho

2024-06-30 07:19:22

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@npub1qd2…4jhz I think you are right. It is not “original” but it is historic.

2024-06-28 15:50:18

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@npub1qd2…4jhz Thank you!

2024-06-28 15:49:44

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@npub1kuk…6hr5 Thank you!

2024-06-28 15:49:26

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@npub1xqv…230r Yes, we still have them but they are being verdrängt.

2024-06-28 14:09:12

BRB, I’m gonna go take the German naturalization test.

2024-05-15 12:06:38

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Here’s the digitization I mentioned: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1752972201&PHYSID=PHYS_0001&DMDID=

2024-05-15 12:05:31

There’s no Royal-Grotesk in this specimen, and the specimen is otherwise a little more represented in German collections than Oak Knoll’s description states. One copy was even recently digitized! But some nice collector with lots of dollars should still buy this specimen, because Theinhardt’s foundry was pretty cool in its own right. https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/140348/ferdinand-theinhardt/musterbuch-von-ferd-theinhardt-schriftgieszligerei-berlin-s-w

2024-04-30 05:28:45

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@npub1swg…yl4f Munich has a pretty expensive living standard, from a German perspective. But I think that salary expectations are still nothing like the Bay Area.

2024-04-26 13:15:16

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@npub1phu…ufs3 Fotos von dem anderen Schrank werden in etwa zwei Wochen folgen!

2024-04-26 10:55:31

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If you are looking for some background information about these punches, I published a short blog post about them four years ago. It includes some more illustrations, literature recommendations, and links. You can read that here: https://www.typeoff.de/2020/01/decker-and-reichsdruckerei-punches-part-2/

2023-08-19 07:30:53

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@npub186v…za0g Here is the page with the contact details for your case. https://foundrysupport.monotype.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029957811

2023-07-05 15:23:43

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@npub15l6…5uge The Commercial Classics website also states that Ionic No. 2 was cut by a punchcutter named Pernie. In the middle of the 19th Century, I don’t think it was yet too widespread for punchcutters to be interpreting “designs” drawn in paper as concepts and provided to them, as would eventually become the norm.