Tag Archives: IBM 1403
TypeCon 2014 Conference Trip Report
27 Jun 2015 Update: Registration is now open for TypeCon 2015: Condensed, 12–16 August 2015 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Save $50 by first becoming a member of SOTA. Check out the great workshops and a preview of the program! Hope to … Continue reading
1403 Vintage Mono font used in book cover design for Grantland’s sports analytics compilation book
[tweet https://twitter.com/composerjk/status/435685179454013440 width=”150″ align=”right”] While preparing to teach and work with some fabulous 6-12 grade movement teachers about social partner dancing at the 2014 Movement Education Week (@HealthyMovement), I heard an update from one of our typeface customers. Our 1403 Vintage Mono … Continue reading
TypeCon 2013 Conference Trip Report
Another great type design conference happened in Portland, Oregon, August 2013: TypeCon 2013: portl&. I ended up not taking as many notes, this year, so this trip report may be less extensive than the TypeCon 2012 trip report. The weekend … Continue reading
IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Vietnamese added)
I added a first pass at uppercase Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) to my IBM 1403 inspired monospace typeface. So, now, what started as a combination of the 52 characters represented by the A & H chains of the IBM 1403 printer has … Continue reading
IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew)
I’ve been busy. As a break, I added a first pass at uppercase Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew to the IBM 1403 inspired typeface. There are fun challenges in fitting these scripts into a fixed width (especially one set initially for … Continue reading
IBM 1403 inspired typeface update
It’s been about a month since I started designing my IBM 1403 printer inspired typeface (initial post about it with an early sample image). The typeface has grown from 52 glyphs covering the A and H print chains to over 730 glyphs, … Continue reading
An IBM 1403 Printer Inspired Typeface (in progress)
Backstory The other day, 18 January 2013, Mark VandeWettering (@brainwagon) wondered aloud on twitter about the existence of a typeface reminiscent of the IBM 1403 line printer. Mark wrote about his path to this query. Stan Paddock (his 1401 blog) had created a scanned font (artifacts and all) from … Continue reading