Kind Reader,
I’m not going to lie to you, shit has been getting pretty real around here. People are wearing LAURELZ. Stop Making Sense is this weekend. This is the penultimate Grail. In keeping with our tradition of sensationalist click-bait titles, here is a list of “6 things only ‘90s kids will understand”: Feast your eyes on a not-so-brief history of the conflict between digital and hand-written type (?). A powerful story from Grace’s past, reaching toward the future (?). Find out which faculty member is your soulmate in our limited edition quiz (?). DeSastre’s final critique of a critic (?). Another of many Lonely Hearts (?). A peek at culture, in the form of an image (?).
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The hand-drawn work of scribes has always had an inexplicable allure. Since the time of Gutenberg, typographers have been attempting to imitate their intricate and elegant lettering. The scribe’s pen or brush was then seen as the higher form to which type designers aspired but could not hope to achieve, and even today it still serves as an important tool in the typographer’s kit. In the words of Jan Tschichold, a German type designer and calligrapher, “Anyone who has ever done lettering by hand knows much more about the qualities of right spacing than a mere compositor who only hears certain rules without understanding them.”