type cut in stone

for the pagefor the screen& for the wall

piatra serif · regular

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piatra serif
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beside libre baskerville

same text, style & weight

piatra serif starts from libre baskerville’s masters & is recut, lightly, in stone: taut brackets, faceted terminals, pebble dots, oldstyle figures, small capitals & optical sizes from text to wall; a crossed W & a splayed M wait behind ss02, swash italic capitals behind swsh

piatra serif

Having been an early admirer of the beauty of Letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them. Birmingham, 1758

libre baskerville

Having been an early admirer of the beauty of Letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them. Birmingham, 1758

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Of Letter-Founding

Amongst the several mechanic Arts that have engaged my attention, there is no one which I have pursued with so much steadiness and pleasure, as that of Letter-Founding. Having been an early admirer of the beauty of Letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them. I formed to myself ideas of greater accuracy than had yet appeared, and have endeavoured to produce a Set of Types according to what I conceived to be their true proportion.

John Baskerville, preface to Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1758

Un apartament bine aerisit, compus din trei încăperi principale, având terasă cu geamlâc și sonerie.

Urmuz, Pâlnia și Stamate, 1922

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