{"id":1239,"date":"2015-06-16T08:15:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2015-06-16T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T16:34:35","slug":"counting-down-the-weekend-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/counting-down-the-weekend-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting down to the workshop this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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June 12 and 13 daily lettering – pages 18-19<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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June 15 daily lettering – page 20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All that bicycling in Crete took its toll on my back, but I’ve been soldiering on \u2013\u00a0most days \u2013 on the homework for Peter Thornton’s workshop in Missoula this coming weekend.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, page 18: Experimenting with changes in orientation, size, spontaneous layout. (I had to do something<\/em> about that the horrendously large space in the O, which could have been fixed by wider letter spacing or a narrower O … but wasn’t.) \u00a0Page 19, done on Friday and Saturday, was an attempt to keep the three main width groups of Romans but condense them all by about 25%. Not a success, except that I learned that it would probably be better to move toward a more consistent letter width at that level of compression. None of the following work: condensation, condensing, condensement<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, page 20: I dispensed with guidelines and line leading, experimenting with variations in orientation and size, and trying to get the spaces to “talk” to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All that bicycling in Crete took its toll on my back, but I’ve been soldiering on \u2013\u00a0most days \u2013 on the homework for Peter Thornton’s workshop in Missoula this coming weekend. Last Friday, page 18: Experimenting with changes in orientation, size, spontaneous layout. (I had to do something about that the horrendously large space in … <\/p>\n

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