Fra Luca de Pacioli kabakabakaba but it was essentially Slow

but it was essentially Slow down and do good work

this pair of hand-printed aquatints feature Matthew Carter’s stunning lowercase a from his presently-unreleased Big Fry and a z inspired by a sixteenth-century italic attributed to the French punchcutter Pierre Haultin

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It was intended to be both an aide-mémoire of that exhibition

Fra Luca de Pacioli kabakabakaba but it was essentially SlowHeres a little Bruce Rogers number with an essay by Stanley Morison (who initialed it) and a bibliography by Philip Hofer. In between is the work of Luca de Pacioli, who you know as the first person to publish a work on the double entry system of bookkeeping, a precursor to QuickBooks. He also prepared this treatise on geometry and beauty and their application to roman letters. It predates similar explorations by Albrecht Drer and Geoffrey Tory and