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Guardian Egyptian
Guardian Egyptian is a slab-serif typeface commissioned by Mark Porter for the UK newspaper ''The Guardian'' and designed by Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz between 2004 and 2005 and published by their company Commercial Type. It was an essential element in ''The Guardian'''s move to the Berliner format and was the typeface used in the masthead until 2018. It is part of the ''Guardian'' font family A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include variations in size (e.g., 24 point), weight (e.g., light, bold), slope (e.g., italic), width ..., which also includes Guardian Sans, Guardian Text Egyptian, Guardian Text Sans and Guardian Agate, all of which are also used by ''The Guardian''. References External links Guardian Egyptian Headline available for licensing at Commercial Type(Weights: Hairline, Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black (with ita ...
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Slab Serif
In typography, a slab serif (also called ''mechanistic'', ''square serif'', ''antique'' or ''Egyptian'') typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular ( Rockwell), or rounded (Courier). Slab serifs were introduced in the early nineteenth century. Slab serifs form a large and varied genre. Some such as Memphis and Rockwell have a geometric design with minimal variation in stroke width: they are sometimes described as sans-serif fonts with added serifs. Others such as those of the Clarendon genre have a structure more like most other serif fonts, though with larger and more obvious serifs. These designs may have bracketed serifs which increase width along their length before merging with the main strokes of the letters, while on geometrics the serifs have a constant width. Display-oriented slab serifs are often extremely bold, intended to grab the reader's attention on a poster, while slab serifs o ...
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Paul Barnes (designer)
Paul Barnes (born 1970, Harlow, England) is a graphic designer and typographer. Career After an education at the University of Reading, in 1992 he emigrated to the United States to work with Roger Black. In 1995 he moved to London to work as a freelance designer. In collaboration with Peter Saville, he has developed identities for the English bands New Order, Electronic and Joy Division, as well as for ABC, Givenchy, and Kate Moss. With Christian Schwartz he designed the very large Guardian Egyptian family typefaces for The Guardian and operates the digital type design company Commercial Type. Awards In September 2006 he was named one of the 40 most influential designers under 40 in '' Wallpaper'' and in September 2007 The Guardian named him one of the top 50 designers in Britain. Typefaces designed by Paul Barnes *Austin - 2003 *Brunel - 1996 *Dala Floda - 2005 *Dala Prisma - 2014 * Guardian Egyptian - 2005, with Christian Schwartz *Ironbridge - 2002 *Marian - 2005 ...
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Christian Schwartz
Christian Schwartz (born December 30, 1977, in Concord, New Hampshire, United States) is an American type designer. He has been awarded the German Design Award and the Prix Charles Peignot. Life Schwartz began designing fonts in school. A graduate of the Communication Design program at Carnegie Mellon University, Schwartz first worked at MetaDesign Berlin, developing typefaces for Volkswagen and logos for various corporations. He then returned to the US and joined the design staff at Font Bureau. Schwartz has worked independently in 2001, first forming Orange Italic with product designer Dino Sanchez and recently Schwartzco Inc. He has released commercial fonts with Village, FontFont, Emigre, House Industries and Font Bureau. Many of Schwartz's typefaces have been proprietary designs for corporations such as Bosch and Deutsche Bahn, both with noted designer Erik Spiekermann, and EMI, for the marketing of George Harrison’s posthumous final album. Schwartz has also des ...
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Mark Porter (designer)
Mark Porter (born 15 March 1960, Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British publication designer and art director, and former creative director of ''The Guardian''. Formerly he was the art director of the ''Evening Standard'', the UK edition of ''Wired'', and ''Colors''. He directed the redesign of ''The Guardian'', which was voted best-designed newspaper in the world by the US-based Society for News Design A society () is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. ... in 2006. References Scottish designers Living people 1960 births People from Aberdeen {{designer-stub ...
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ...
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Slab-serif
In typography, a slab serif (also called ''mechanistic'', ''square serif'', ''antique'' or ''Egyptian'') typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular ( Rockwell), or rounded (Courier). Slab serifs were introduced in the early nineteenth century. Slab serifs form a large and varied genre. Some such as Memphis and Rockwell have a geometric design with minimal variation in stroke width: they are sometimes described as sans-serif fonts with added serifs. Others such as those of the Clarendon genre have a structure more like most other serif fonts, though with larger and more obvious serifs. These designs may have bracketed serifs which increase width along their length before merging with the main strokes of the letters, while on geometrics the serifs have a constant width. Display-oriented slab serifs are often extremely bold, intended to grab the reader's attention on a poster, while slab serifs o ...
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Typeface
A typeface (or font family) is a design of Letter (alphabet), letters, Numerical digit, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include variations in size (e.g., 24 point), weight (e.g., light, bold), slope (e.g., italic), width (e.g., condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are list of typefaces, thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly. The art and craft of designing typefaces is called type design. Designers of typefaces are called type designers and are often employed by type foundry, type foundries. In desktop publishing, type designers are sometimes also called "font developers" or "font designers" (a typographer is someone who ''uses'' typefaces to design a page layout). Every typeface is a collection of glyphs, each of which represents an individual letter, number, punctuation mark, or other symbol. The same glyph may be used for ch ...
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ...
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Commercial Type
Commercial Type is a digital type foundry established in 2007 by type designers Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz. Its work includes typefaces for ''The Guardian'', such as the Guardian Egyptian series, and other retail and commissioned typefaces. It created the open-source Roboto Serif typeface for Google and several of its typefaces are bundled with macOS macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With .... References External links * {{authority control Commercial type foundries Design companies established in 2007 Graphic design studios Companies based in Manhattan 2007 establishments in New York City ...
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Berliner (format)
Berliner is a newspaper format with pages normally measuring about . The Berliner format, or "midi", is slightly taller and marginally wider than the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid/Compact (newspaper), compact format, and is both narrower and shorter than the broadsheet format. Origin The Berliner format is an innovation in press and an alternative to the Broadsheet (newspaper), broadsheet format. The name refers to the city of Berlin, and was originally contrasted with "North German" and "French" sizes in the early 20th century. European newspapers The Berliner format is used by many Europe, European newspapers, including dailies such as ''Le Monde'' and ''Le Figaro'' in France, in Switzerland, and in Italy, ''El País'' and ''El Mundo (Spain), El Mundo'' in Spain, ''De Morgen'', ''Le Soir'' and ''Het Laatste Nieuws'' in Belgium, ''Oslobođenje'' in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia, ''Mladá fronta Dnes'' and ''Lidové noviny'' in the Czech Republic, and others such as ...
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Masthead (British Publishing)
The nameplate (American English) or masthead (British English)The Guardian: ''Newspaper terminology''
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of a newspaper or periodical is its designed title as it appears on the front page or cover. Another very common term for it in the newspaper industry is "the flag". It is part of the publication's branding, with a specific font and, usually, color. It may include other details besides the name, such as Dingbat, ornamentation, a Subtitle (titling), subtitle, or motto. For example, the masthead of ''The Times'' of London includes the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, British Royal Arms between the words "The" and "Times". Another example is the masthead of ''Daily Record (Scotland), Daily Record'' of Scotland, which include ...
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Font Family (HTML)
In movable type, metal typesetting, a font is a particular #Characteristics, size, weight and style of a ''typeface'', defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts "Roman (typeface), Roman" (or "regular"), "" and ""; each of these exists in a variety of Font size, sizes. In the digital description of fonts (computer fonts), the terms "font" and "typeface" are often used interchangeably. For example, when used in computers, each style is stored in a separate digital font file. In both traditional typesetting and computing, the word "font" refers to the delivery mechanism of an instance of the typeface. In traditional typesetting, the font would be made from metal or wood type: to compose a page may require multiple fonts from the typeface or even multiple typefaces. Spelling and etymology The word ''font'' (US) or ''fount'' (traditional UK, CAN; in any case pronounced ) derives from Mid ...
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