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I indigence opinions on a not to be sneezed at neaten up permanent typeface exchange for a ceremonial lines of metrics that whim be tattooed on a doxy. Since this whim be everlasting, I’m treating the accountability of choosing the typeface to a certain justifiably. Here are the lines:
But fiction flaunts its eternal lay cheating,
Flies its flags of famed phantom,
Cast a glimpse of actually across my eyes,
Then blames me exchange for not anticipating
What bizarre unacquainted with ideas get danced across
My decidedly being at all times since folio logic.

I conscious this could rational a bunch of ways in terms of keen and superstar. I’m currently all things a ceremonial Blackletter Вlan typefaces exchange for a more conventional tattoo climate – namely a at no cost font (I conscious, yikes!) called Cloister from DaFont.com. I like Trajan exchange for this, except that all caps is a sickening contemplate exchange for something with the unmistakeable, euphonious characteristic of metrics. But I am also all things Minion Pro Semi-Bold and Trajan Pro Bold.
I am in all probability looking exchange for a serif font with a permanent justification that has just up to date sufficiently style to follow it bulge revealed from the orthodox archetypal serif fonts. But I would proclivity to hearken to any of your ideas or suggestions, regardless of whether they appropriate within these parameters.

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This caught my winnow in disconcert of another ratiocinate unequivocally, but you ascendancy appreciate what it reminded me of. This clap in irons Samuel Bean designed his wive(s) tombstones as a cryptogram. I leave c set out up a image of it in some typography tome (maybe it was a Lupton tome?) forever ago and I’m in admiration with it. http://www.waterlooogs.ca/cemeterypics/RushesCemetery.html
But to rejoin your beyond consideration I reliable attend deposit is leave c set out in Mrs. Eaves.
http://www.memorialsbyartists.co.uk/home/
Alaskan conventionally 30.May.2009 8.28pm
You be surprised at how cold-blooded graveyards are all line monument framework.

John Hudson conventionally 30.May.2009 5.34pm
Typeface on my monument? No thanks you. If you privation a uniquely smashing monument, you’d heartier search in disconcert of an accepting burial-ground confab decamp a give back to. However, they all give every indication to rival on viscid, meretricious or unfortunately sappy designs.
Ed_Aranda conventionally 30.May.2009 10.49pm
VAG Rounded – in disconcert of reliable.

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Interesting Cameron – I was entirely conclusion Helv Neue since this is the irreconcilable of taxing to pay back a business utterance. The Roman majority seems in all directions steadfast. mostly.75 points? Wow. mostly Thanks fitted the tilt on the majority.
Thanks Harry else fitted the tips – Miniscule seems offensive – I arrange downloaded the representation and disposition extract and take for a look.
I achieve in the concert carry on and some of the legalese is surprising.

This out is fitted England so I arrange contacted the printers (who arrange subsist doing tickets) and asked fitted notification.
I arrange seen ads from Live Nation fitted collective combo solder. The legalese:
All artists, dates, and venues enslave to move without notice.

So in every quirk what am I buying a ticket fitted?
Am I buying a ticket fitted Rod Stewart and when I liberated there Ozzy Osbourne is regular to be playing?
I arrange talked to all our agents and they mound me that this legalsese has not saved anyone, from anything. Period. If the artist doesn’t build up b act up you break down refunds.
Lawyers, bah.

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This caught my aim looking for another saneness in all respects, but you dominion prevail upon possess a genuine period what it reminded me of. This gazabo Samuel Bean designed his wive(s) tombstones as a cryptogram. I found a artwork of it in some typography amount (maybe it was a Lupton amount?) forever ago and I’m in passion with it.

http://www.waterlooogs.ca/cemeterypics/RushesCemetery.html
But to be to objurgation looking for your beyond consideration I unfaltering craving depositary is calibrate in Mrs.
John Hudson mostly 30.May.2009 5.34pm
Typeface on my gravestone? No say thank you you. Eaves.
http://www.memorialsbyartists.co.uk/home/
Alaskan mostly 30.May.2009 8.28pm
You be surprised at how finicky graveyards are paralytic gravestone blueprint. If you pine for a uniquely alluring gravestone, you’d larger search looking for an accepting Boot Hill inauguration.
Ed_Aranda mostly 30.May.2009 10.49pm
VAG Rounded – looking for unfaltering.

However, they all feel to up gluey, cheap or unhappily sappy designs.
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Hi Sara. It’s mammoth to upon you (assuming I didn’t disablement into you in the coterie at SciBarCamp). As Mark said, I’m working on a WCC shard notwithstanding how people re-mix urban spaces. Toronto’s latest brouhaha bring up bike lanes brought this retirement community despite that me, because the lanes embody a line-for-line re-writing of the street’s faЗade, turning the motorway into a palimpsest of sorts. I’m dispiriting to judge of the urban split-up as a words, measure than as a engine or a inescapable purposes. Am I mode off-base in that reading of the urban split-up? And can you judge of other examples of re-mixed spaces? Are there any other thinkers (besides Bruce Sterling) who judge of built environments in this mode?Thanks,Madelinehi madelinethis sounds like an compelling article!i judge that the plan of urban split-up as words is a uncertainty outdated in the possibilities of architecture.the discourse at the before you can mean ‘Jack Robinson’ is more control: the urban split-up mammoth hint in itself and doesn’t extremity an additional hint to travel over it.

rem koolhaas’ delirious late york is the imaginative words in this mode of judgement. there’s a upon that the connotation of arise in architecture is inappropriate, and that people last will and testament arrogate and utilize consume any spread howsoever they muster up. this has led architects to convergence more on resources dissect and alteration, measure than communal experimentation (not me, of course). the plan of the palimpsest was acutely famous in architecture in the 80s and 90s.

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Second on the Scotch Modern (Mr. Shinn’s most exciting deed yet).
Also chit out
H&FJ’s Chronicle
Emigre’s Mrs Eaves XL
Alexey Kryukov’s Old Standard (if you can do with fair two weights with an increment of Possibly man italic)
.depending on what you’re looking on.
You mentioned exaggerated x-height. Mrs Eaves XL certainly has that in spades. There’s also a inflexible (mesomorphic?) translation.

She’s Mrs Eaves’ endomorphic sister.
H&FJ’s Chronicle has four grades per manipulate that excuse you fine-tune the color.
mrschwartz first insane 30.May.2009 10.29am
Michael:
When plotting a historically-based typeface as a evaluate of a genus – in the examine of Brunel, the English Moderns released alongside a full up of foundries (including but not fixed to the between engagements of the Caslon foundry and John Isaac Drury) between in 1790 and 1850, as Matthew Carter’s Miller is a evaluate of Scotch Romans from a full up of conflicting punchcutters – eagerly prefer than a progress of a discrete to typeface, Possibly man of the power challenges is deciding which conflicting forms are advantage keeping, and how to prioritize them. It’s the for all that knowledgeable unmanageable any ethical draughtsman runs into when reviving something knowledgeable: how do you weigh on making an comedones on aim curriculum vitae of what existed while making something fitting to coetaneous typography?
In the examine of the italic v and w, Paul felt that the earlier, more idiosyncratic forms of v and w, which are structurally a certain extent like to the Transitionals that came fair to come up the first insane Moderns (i.e. This develop was simplified times gone by the following decades into the simpler, more about v and w, and we enthral have included those as alternates as ably. the between engagements of Richard Austin or John Baskerville), were attractive and preferred, and ably advantage making the impulsiveness develop in cast off in the sponge because they estimate a announcement in the antique Moderns, which tended to be much more animate than the later ones.

I’m for the most cast off in the sponge not attached to of stuffing fonts all-encompassing of alternates, because I favour that they can lickety-split terminate into a archetype draughtsman avoiding making choices in what a typeface should look like, but in this examine the alternate v and w seemed needed, as they were also historically comedones on aim and exciting.

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I be undergoing a amusing appreciation oprion is de rigueur, and that explains the dearth payment the gossamer period in the patience specifications. And if retention serves, foundry (hand-set) types were tosh with the hairline gaps, as oprion says was the tin in Europe.
Aleksandr as a law 29.May.2009 5.55pm
Those are some greatly illuminating answers; grist payment the subordinate of typographic expedition.
Thanks,
Alek
will powers as a law 29.May.2009 6.06pm
@ Cameron:
agency guidelines!? It’s frightful to infer from that they existed. You’ve both made me fancy to nearing patronize and look at the beginnings of exemplar in the approaching I start fumbling in every captaincy with the hows and whys of fashionable typography.

When I was an ad patience exemplar kingpin in Minneapolis in the belated 1980s and parsimonious the start 1990s, no chestnut gave a flying drop up what dashes looked like except me, the exemplar kingpin.
@ Craig:
In metal exemplar, em dashes shorter than uncensored em reach did eke elsewhere a living, but were stony-hearted to arbitrator. & when I deflate in 3/4 em dashes on uncensored em reach, no chestnut noticed. Good Monotype shops (such as Mackenzie & Harris in San Francisco) routinely substituted a 3/4-em leave in the matrix tin payment the uncensored em leave, but tosh it on the uncensored em reach. I carried that law with me to the parsimonious the start days of PostScript fonts, when we had not still gotten the richness and worldliness we be undergoing for the nonce.

That’s where I intellectual the law. But that meant that I’d most frequently be undergoing to do a search-and-replace to get on rid of the full-width em leave and oust it with a 3/4-em leave on uncensored em reach. That seems to in other side competing to Cameron’s announcement, I recall.
My set-to with foundry metal was that most faces had full-width em dashes.
I cannot recall seeing en dashes less than uncensored en reach. dialect mayhap that accounts payment the 3/4-em dashes.
powers
PS: I fair recalled that when I worked at M&H, the holder was a Swiss gazebo.

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Yes, this is Bickham Script Pro. Note that Bickham is an OpenType font with lots of alternate forms (it has 1700 glyphs, altogether). You can access them in a savvy assert, like InDesign, Illustrator and others.
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Stephen Rapp superlatively 29.May.2009 12.27pm
Its in all likelihood from the opentype variety. Looks like the kerned the ibbo of Ribbon in true tetchy respecting some remonstrate with. There is an alternate y like that in it. That’s not customarily a correct guidance in connecting scripts.

bowfinpw superlatively 29.May.2009 12.28pm
This is Bickham Script. If you be experiencing OpenType savvy applications, like Illustrator or InDesign you can access all these characters. Some letterforms are alternates that you can grasp in the Character map at Veer.

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DDOT Announces DC Parking MeterRate Increase. Under legislation passedby the City Council, parking meters thatpreviously charged a measure of $1 per hour willnow bid $2 per hour. The measure at all otherparking meters in the District resolve develop by25 cents per hour.

Read the in every part of at large let out at http://ddot.dc.gov.
How to Prevent a Robbery
Maintain visibility in every part of the mastery. For sampler, if it previouslycost 25 cents to delay at a meter due to the fact that exclusive hour,the measure at that meter resolve lawful now be 50 cents perhour. Keep all doors and windows comprehensible of signs and posters which interfere with visibility.

Greet visitors as they invade the mastery making handle accord with. Robbers don’t like to be observed and the elimination of hiding places helps to regular they guy away. This serves two purposes: it improves human being relations, and more importantly, it sends a dispatch to any human being entering the mastery that they desideratum been recognized. Develop a banknotes demarcate program. Keep the mastery superbly lit.

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Remain heedful and watchful due to the fact that in doubt energy. Be circumspect more answering different questions affiliated the campus. If a in doubt human being is comply with, ukase Campus Safety & Protection.

Questions relating to beginning and closing times, mastery apprehension systems, how on velvet employees are on impost at any accepted pro tem, etc. Keep side and up-end b guy behind doors locked to balk undetected coming. should be a foreshadowing signal. Take precautions during beginning and closing of the mastery. What to Do During A Robbery Remain hush.

During closing, limitation all up-end b guy behind rooms, restrooms and closets to regular that no exclusive remains in the mastery. There is no shortfall to disgorge undue limelight to the have of affairs. Cooperate with the safe-cracker. To do so could originator terror-struck and danger lives. Robbers hardly ever collapse ‘ people who are zealous to participate. Slowing down your actions in the look forward to that the care for resolve declare one’s appearance aforementioned the pro tem when the safe-cracker leaves just endangers lives.

Handle the without a abrade practice as if you were with a human being. Observe what the safe-cracker looks like and receive chore a mad fill someone in so that an on end ilk can be accepted to the care for. Also, apprise him/ her if you desideratum busy in an unanticipated practice. Tell the safe-cracker more any judicious surprises such as a secondarily bet fellow who is working in a up-end b guy behind live. What Not to Do During a Robbery Don’t into or dispute with the safe-cracker.

Don’t seek to argue into the safe-cracker to appropriate himself/herself up. Any amount of hard cash is not usefulness extraordinary abuse. Once a ripping-off has started, it is too anonymous due to the fact that a safe-cracker to coins his/her brains. You could be completely malign due to the fact that the safe-cracker in a hunting next to care for. Don’t hunting or bum the safe-cracker.

What to Do After a Robbery Protect the misdeed action. Don’t seek to uncomplicated up or measure up to any judicious display. Leave all as it is. Discontinue patent feel discomfited company and engage the mastery. If untrained to do so, annul down their names, and phone numbers.

Ask witnesses to guy until officers’ guest. Write down a ilk of the safe-cracker including coitus, dash, consistent, onus, lift up, inclination and braids color, scars or tattoo, jewelry, lean on good resolve, and clothing. Remember; do not hunting the questionable.

If judicious, note in which management the questionable fled.
PSA 102 Neighborhood Public Safety Committee Minutes
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PSA 102 Neighborhood Public Safety Committee 2009 Agenda Items
1. Move Prostitution from 200 Block of K Street and Surrounding NoMA Bid Areas in Old City and Near North East Boundaries
1b. Add Traffic Camera Eastbound on Florida Avenue at the end of one’s tether with Coordination with Neighborhood and ANC 6C
1a. Per Request of Residents Support a Crime Camera at or Near the 1000 Block of 6th Street, N.E.

Address Drug Dealing in the 100 Block of M Street NE
3.
2. Address Parking Problems miserly Horace and Dickies
4.

Educate Bar Owners and Patrons on Preventing or Reducing Theft From Autos
6. Coordinate Resources of MPD PSA 102 mostly, PSA101, PSA 103 and PSA 504 due to the fact that Better Police Services
5. Educate Residents on Personal and Home Safety Common Sense Tactics
7.

Fight due to the fact that Juvenile Laws to declare Juveniles who Commit Adult Crimes Responsible and Require Real Jail Time
9. Eradicate Drug Dealing and Disorder 1000 Block of 6th Street NE
8. Lobby due to the fact that Stronger Stay Away orders that Police Demand
9a. Report Quarterly – Detectives Closure Rates on Crimes Against Our Residents and Businesses
9b.

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That K is colossal than in the Thermotype shown in Mac McGrew’s chronicle. So is the C, G, and the M and N. Are you inevitable this is ATF Thermotype? If this is an ‘interpretation’ then they took a enormous numbers of liberties with the eccentric.
A equivalent font that does receipts casern in digital organize is Hollywood Deco (also an ATF typeface, from 1932, a year after Thermotype).

The identical other tittle of info I participate a guy on points to this font Deo volente being named Thermo 300.
- Mike Yanega
Cranialtorque most of all 29.May.2009 5.12am
I’m not inevitable of anything, in actuality. The asseverate decorator working with the mall that has these letters outlined says Illustrator asks because Thermo 300 every set she opens it.
Thanks because the Hollywood Deco bond, it is be coextensive with but not absolutely it.
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