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43 relations: Atheism, Baskerville, Baskerville House, Benjamin Franklin, Birmingham, Birmingham City University, Birmingham School of Acting, Book of Revelation, Book size, Catacombs, Centenary Square, Christ Church, Birmingham, Consecration, Crypt, Emigre (type foundry), Font, Japanning, John Milton, Joseph Addison, Kidderminster, Leading, Library of Birmingham, List of type designers, Lunar Society of Birmingham, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Monotype Imaging, Mrs Eaves, Papier-mâché, Paradise Lost, Portland stone, Punchcutting, Quarto, Robert Andrews (translator), Royal Society of Arts, Type foundry, Typeface, Typography, University of Cambridge, Virgil, Warstone Lane Cemetery, Wolverley, Worcestershire, Wove paper.
Atheism
Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.
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Baskerville
Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England, and cut into metal by punchcutter John Handy.
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Baskerville House
Baskerville House, previously called the Civic Centre, is a former civic building in Centenary Square, Birmingham, England.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a modern university in the city of Birmingham, England.
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Birmingham School of Acting
Birmingham School of Acting (BSA), previously known as Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art (BSSTDA) and then as Birmingham School of Speech and Drama (BSSD) was a drama school located in Birmingham, England.
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Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation, often called the Revelation to John, the Apocalypse of John, The Revelation, or simply Revelation or Apocalypse (and often misquoted as Revelations), is a book of the New Testament that occupies a central place in Christian eschatology.
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Book size
The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover.
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Catacombs
Catacombs are human-made subterranean passageways for religious practice.
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Centenary Square
Centenary Square is a public square on the north side of Broad Street in Birmingham, England, named in 1989 to commemorate the centenary of Birmingham achieving city status.
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Christ Church, Birmingham
Christ Church, Birmingham, was a parish church in the Church of England on Colmore Row, Birmingham from 1805 to 1899.
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Consecration
Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service, usually religious.
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Crypt
A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building.
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Emigre (type foundry)
Emigre, also known as Emigre Graphics, is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design centered information based in Berkeley, California, that was founded in 1984 by husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko.
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Font
In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.
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Japanning
Japanning is a type of finish that originated as a European imitation of Asian lacquerwork.
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.
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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.
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Kidderminster
Kidderminster is a large town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England.
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Leading
In typography, leading refers to the distance between adjacent lines of type; however, the exact definition has become confused.
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Library of Birmingham
The Library of Birmingham is a public library in Birmingham, England.
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List of type designers
A type designer (sometimes mistakenly referred to as a typographer), is a person who designs typefaces.
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Lunar Society of Birmingham
The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England.
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Mergenthaler Linotype Company
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
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Monotype Imaging
Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
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Mrs Eaves
Mrs Eaves is a transitional serif typeface designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996.
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Papier-mâché
Papier-mâché (literally "chewed paper") is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).
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Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.
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Punchcutting
Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type.
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Quarto
Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4°) is a book or pamphlet produced from full "blanksheets", each of which is printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves (that is, eight book pages).
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Robert Andrews (translator)
Robert Andrews (1723–1766) was an English Dissenter, known as a poet and translator of Virgil.
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Royal Society of Arts
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.
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Type foundry
A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces.
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Typeface
In typography, a typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.
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Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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Warstone Lane Cemetery
Warstone Lane Cemetery,, also called Brookfields Cemetery, Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery (from the adjacent Birmingham Mint), is a cemetery dating from 1847 in Birmingham, England.
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Wolverley
Wolverley is a village; with nearby Cookley (1 mi northeast), it forms a civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England.
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Worcestershire
Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England.
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Wove paper
Wove paper is a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baskerville
