The fight over the Doves: A legendary typeface gets a second life

It's a beautiful bit of type. That print at the top is lovely.

Does any digital system recreate the analogue nature of that type of printing yet? I guess this would be like Instagram, but for fonts.

> Both Cobden-Sanderson and Walker were part of the group of artists and craftsmen that gathered around William Morris

This group also invented pebble-dash. It's bizarre when you look at a Cotswold manor and see a bit of pebble-dash.

Egotism, the genius and the tragedy.

I think he'd be horrified at his type, once used for the bible, now being used for posters.

I found myself amusingly insulted by seeing ß called a "German esset", which should at the very least be "Eszett".

Doves for purchase on Typesec here, £40: http://typespec.co.uk/doves-type/

Kind of like the story about Bliss and his iconography. I have never understood the idea of destroying something you love because someone else might benefit from it.

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I wonder how well an automated recreation would work. What would come from taking scans of works using the typeface and taking the intersection of each instance of each letter?

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Interesting. Not $65 interesting though.