I’m told Hollands Spoor, the neighborhood around historical Den Haag HS train station, is not an appealing, but this charm campaign won me over as soon as I stepped off the train. The billboards advertise an ongoing effort to refurbish an area that is seen by some as derelict, unpleasant, and unsafe.
Is this a case of LTypI applied to type effects? Apparently it is really tempting to add a shadow to Schadow, in this case the Black Condensed. Georg Trump started it himself – both Forum I and II essentially are shaded Schadows.
Ha, Flo, it most probably is. On another note, I now can’t stop thinking of how URW once shadowed fonts that were already shadowed. Futura Shadowed Sh…
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Is this a case of LTypI applied to type effects? Apparently it is really tempting to add a shadow to Schadow, in this case the Black Condensed. Georg Trump started it himself – both Forum I and II essentially are shaded Schadows.
Ha, Flo, it most probably is. On another note, I now can’t stop thinking of how URW once shadowed fonts that were already shadowed. Futura Shadowed Sh…
Thanks for the Ohrwurm!