Sunday, August 12, 2018 -- Cochin Italic Typecasting
Just finished a nice run of 18 pt. Cochin Italic type, from Lanston Monotype matrices originally owned by Cooper & Beatty. I have been wanting to run these matrices for a long time. Cochin is still in use today as a very popular type face for advertising. A very legible face, it invokes the 'engraved' look of one hundred years ago. I cast the font closer spaced that Lanston set up originally, this is from my training and in general, I find italic type faces benefit from this treatment.
C&B ordered extra matrices including lower case accents for French and the many swash special characters that Cochin is known for. I used the opportunity to also run some newly-purchased 18 pt. English Monotype composition matrices including '@', '©', '#' and '®'. And there was enough type to font a few extra sets, as shown here.
A full box of 18 pt. type at Pygment Press is usually fifteen rows, 30 pica wide. I ran three rows over because of all the extra stuff; so to to fill out the second box, I ran spacing material, roughly 5-to-em. One set is 'high spaces' and one set is regular low spaces. The high spaces fit neatly under the kerns of this font for support. This Italic type is very tight in 'set width' so there are lots of kerns to support.
Sunday, August 12, 2018 -- Cochin Italic Typecasting
Just finished a nice run of 18 pt. Cochin Italic type, from Lanston Monotype matrices originally owned by Cooper & Beatty. I have been wanting to run these matrices for a long time. Cochin is still in use today as a very popular type face for advertising. A very legible face, it invokes the 'engraved' look of one hundred years ago. I cast the font closer spaced that Lanston set up originally, this is from my training and in general, I find italic type faces benefit from this treatment.
C&B ordered extra matrices including lower case accents for French and the many swash special characters that Cochin is known for. I used the opportunity to also run some newly-purchased 18 pt. English Monotype composition matrices including '@', '©', '#' and '®'. And there was enough type to font a few extra sets, as shown here.
A full box of 18 pt. type at Pygment Press is usually fifteen rows, 30 pica wide. I ran three rows over because of all the extra stuff; so to to fill out the second box, I ran spacing material, roughly 5-to-em. One set is 'high spaces' and one set is regular low spaces. The high spaces fit neatly under the kerns of this font for support. This Italic type is very tight in 'set width' so there are lots of kerns to support.