Thursday, December 18, 2008

Type for Christmas.


These are gorgeous. You can read a lot of interesting [well, some geeks like me think so] tidbits about early typesetting here. These particular blocks are 500 years old! One quarter of the time since the first Christmas, plus they look Christmasy, I think. Ye olde block letters. Lovely.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it rather screams Canterbury Tales, eh? lovely...

Kristi said...

YES. I need to go back and read those (maybe a translation), so I can remember just who had the carbuncles. Why is that all I remember?? So wrong.