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...semester, there will still be plenty of opportunities for students to get involved. Open Press Thursdays will still be buzzing, and Russem is organizing type-related film screenings open to the entire Harvard community. The schedule, which begins October 1 with the airing of the documentary “Helvetica,” will be posted on the Bow & Arrow Press’s website. Future courses may also be in the (hand-crafted?) cards...
...Hulsey '01 spends a good deal of her time at the Bow & Arrow Press, an old-fashioned letter-press workshop buried deep in what you might call the bowels of Adams House B-Entry. There, in a vaguely medieval space stuffed to the gills with drawers full of type (Helvetica, Futura, you name it), a quarter-century's worth of magnesium plates and the assembled knick-knacks of the letter-press trade, Hulsey prints books and broadsides of poetry written by her friends and roommate, Susannah Lang Hollister '01, in addition to original work. In a painstaking procedure that takes...
Changing fonts, for example, was no simple matter of highlighting text and selecting "Garamond." Changing fonts on a typesetter literally meant exchanging fonts--lifting up the cover, detaching the "Helvetica" strip from the large revolving drum inside and replacing it with "Garamond." And as each strip held only one point size in each font, changing font size was an equally long process. (Anyone who thinks scalable fonts aren't the neatest thing since removable type has never been faced with the choice of 12 pt. and 24 pt. Helvetica as their only options...
...would have changed politics, but the Houghton exhibit indicates that digital democracy has served typography well. Such exhibits as "About face" can ensure that consumers and designers use democracy's energies properly, constumers will learn that the history of type began long before Apple began bundling bitmaps of "Times," "Helvetica" and "Palatine" with Macintosh will be able contract the wild modern early periods with the stodgy lay in between...
...then load in your Word or Mac Write file. Once in a Mac word processor, it's possible to define a block of text and change the font from the old image-writer font--such as Geneva or New York--into a laser font--such as Times Roman or Helvetica...
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