#franklingothic

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Back in the studio as often as possible to create new work in time for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair in December. First order of business is setting type for the maintenance-themed, Franklin Gothic focused, Understanding this Book book, somewhat of a sequel to 2002’s Alchemy.

Quite an affair but worth the effort. Looking forward to finding out how evenly this old type will print.

Some days are all about maintenance. An afternoon of redistribution of recently cleaned, printed, and cleaned again Franklin Gothic into cleaned out California Job Cases lined with black mat board for ideal work environment in the future.

Surprise! It’s an idea for making a book about the process…imagining pulling a print of a bed full of type leads to imagining page spreads of the same, leads to a quick sketch of what the pagination of such a book might be, leads to let’s get down to business and fill up the bed, and if the 24 pt doesn’t fill it up, well, then might as well clean and tidy up the 18 point, too.

Working on more broadsides this winter, hoping to print them all before cemetery season starts, 20 March. Decided to feature all the Franklin Gothic I have for the Cougar Awareness print on the list of things to make. Set the larger, opening text a few nights ago. Got moody about it because the type is in rough shape and it’s dirty and it sucks. It’s not like it’s a beauty. But it is mine and I’ve sworn to work with what I have. Got into the 10 pt for the smaller text and got really annoyed with how dirty the case is and the type is all mixed up, very low on some characters…finally got annoyed enough with it (might have been the thick grime getting caked on my fingertips) to take on the task of emptying out the case by setting all the type on its feet, vacuuming the case, sorting all the spacing material, then at least scrubbing up the type…unless I decide to go all the way and soak and wash it all entirely before putting it back in an orderly fashion. I’ll probably end up doing that because it needs to be done if I’m going to get the best results possible out of this shit. And that’s how Mister Koppa rolls.

Nure 1.5 out now! http://fsd.it/shop/fonts/nure/

Hand set Franklin Gothic Condensed after setting the entire case on its feet in the bed of the press, scrubbing it clean, printing it for pages in the forthcoming title, Understanding this Book, and cleaning again before redistributing it all back into a clean California Job Case lined with mat board.