SSi Foundry Myths # 20(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stone says "The global effect relates to the combined, overall appearance of the characters when used in text over part or all of a page." This is obviously untrue.
Stone's "global effect" is merely a smoke screen to divert attention from the fact that his letter forms are not "new" and "original" and, in fact, indistinguishable from other similar alphabets at ordinary reading distance or greater.
Stone argued, in part, that "the global effect achieved with the font of the [his] present design is entirely different and distinct from the global effect achieved with the fonts of the cited references." Incorporated into Stone's Declaration were exhibits purporting to show the differences in "global effect" between Stone's font and the old art.
Stone intended Basalt to be useful as a typeface for signage, and indeed its first public use is for signage in the libraries at Stanford University.
Stone's Basalt is a typeface all in caps, like the inscriptions that inspired it.
But Stone discovered that the basic letterforms he was working with would also work when they were slightly condensed, without losing any of their legibility or usefulness.
ITC Stone Overview(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stone Sans already has a claim to being part of the humanistic tradition.
The Humanist Sans is a full-fledged member of the itc Stone super family having the same x-height, stroke weights, and proportions as the original Sans, Serif and Informal designs.
Serif, Sans, and Informal and now Humanist Sans are designed as integrated parts of a superfamily.
ITC Stone is an extended family of typefaces that actually consists of three sub-families: serif, sans serif, and a new designation, informal.
The process of designing the ITC Stone family began with pencil and paper, but most of the work was done with interactive drawing software on a computer.
Stone's 22 year romance with letterforms that began as a calligraphy student of Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Oregon.
Stone and his counsel, after the initial rejection, argued that the characters of a typeface are not to be viewed individually in reference to old art.
Stone had a technique of using the bowl of the "a" for the "g" that is mirrored in Herb Lubalin's 1974 ITC Serif Gothic design.
What Stone did here was to take a garden-variety shape - probably a "d" - and use its bowl as the component for the "a", "b", "d","g", "p" and "q." The "a" was created by simply lopping off the part, as Lubalin did with his ITC Serif Gothic.
Stone also includes detailed notes on letterspacing and tracking in general, with specific recommendations of how much looser or tighter to set Magma at very small or large sizes, in order to make it look consistent.
Stone's 31-page type specimen for Magma, which uses passages from Fitzgerald's translation of the "Odyssey" for its sample text, shows off the typeface to good advantage, with lots of variations of size and weight and style for comparison.
Among sans serif typefaces, it's exactly the opposite of an industrial sans; Magma invites literary uses, though I'd be surprised to see anyone set a whole book in it.
LANSTON TYPE | STONE SERIF® | PANTOGRAPH PATTERN MAKING(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
for ITC Stone®Serif was cut from a sheet of brass, then attached to a square backing of even thicker brass making a finished pattern.
Patterns are followed by the stylus of the pantograph which controls the cutter and makes a relief character in a much smaller bar of steel forming a punch.
Typography - Identity Elements - WSU Graphic Identity Program(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The ITC StoneSerif and Sans family of type fonts is required for use in all University print materials directed to external audiences.
The preferred Adobe version of ITC StoneSerif and Sans fonts is available for purchase at a nominal cost by registering at www.pubforms.wsu.edu/fonts.
Independent graphic designers and commercial printers who need the Stone fonts to do work for the University must purchase the fonts directly from any vendor that deals in Adobe type.
ITC Stone Serif™ font family : MyFonts(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ITC StoneSerif™ is a Linotype font family with 16 styles priced from $21.95.
Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family.
‘ITC StoneSerif’ is a Trademark of International Typeface Corporation.