@fhardwig @monokrom Fascinating! A good reminder to check out Gray’s charts in the back of “A History of Lettering”. She also has a good chapter on “A Time of Experiment: The Romanesque”. #NicoleteGray #Lettering #TypeHistory #InsularManuscripts

‘…Berthold Wolpe gave us an impassioned plea that, just as the only proper and natural shape of an egg is egg-shape, so the only form of writing is italic; to want an alternative is like wanting square eggs.’ (Nicolete Gray, Summary report of the second working seminar on the teaching of letterforms, 4-10 july 1976 / Atypi / University of Reading)
#BertholdWolpe #NicoleteGray #Italic

‘…Berthold Wolpe gave us an impassioned plea that, just as the only proper and natural shape of an egg is egg-shape, so the only form of writing is italic; to want an alternative is like wanting square eggs.’ (Nicolete Gray, Summary report of the second working seminar on the teaching of letterforms, 4-10 july 1976 / Atypi / University of Reading)
#BertholdWolpe #NicoleteGray #Italic