{"id":1697,"date":"2006-11-20T20:30:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2006-11-20T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T20:30:20","slug":"one-for-the-typography-wonks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"One for the typography wonks…"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK – there might not be a lot of you. I’m not one – I can’t instantly look at a page and say “oh, that’s 22-point Abadi condensed light, and someone’s put a 10-point squeeze on it” – although I’ve worked with people who can, and as a party trick it is quite impressive.<\/p>\n

But it is still rather fascinating to watch the 20 steps in the evolution of The Times masthead, which can be found in this account of The Times adoption of a new one today<\/a> – in a new, specially created font, Times Modern, which compared to the traditional times Roman is, “sharper and more angular”.<\/p>\n

Quite suitable, I’d judge, to the “well we’re not quite so ‘tabloid’ as the Daily Mail<\/i>” Thunderer of today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK – there might not be a lot of you. I’m not one – I can’t instantly look at a page and say “oh, that’s 22-point Abadi condensed light, and someone’s put a 10-point squeeze on it” – although I’ve worked with people who can, and as a party trick it is quite impressive. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}