{"id":8608,"date":"2016-10-06T00:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2021-04-14T00:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:05:19","slug":"interview-with-our-font-and-layout-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/interview-with-our-font-and-layout-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Our Font & Layout Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Logo<\/a>\"Logo<\/a>Interviews:\u00a0 Number 1<\/h2>\n

Here we begin a Series of Interviews with people involved in the origins, formation, development, and life of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence.<\/p>\n

First comes an interview with our Font & Layout Designer, Leslie J. French.<\/p>\n

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Interview
\nwith the Font and Layout Designer
\nfor the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h2>\n

\""Bembino"<\/a>In recording the origins, history, and progress of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (= “RGME”), we conduct interviews with people involved in these stages.<\/p>\n

I invited our expert Font and Layout Designer, Dr. Leslie J. French, to describe the directions in the creation of the distinctive style of Research Group page-layout and Publications<\/a>. His digital designs for the Research Group begin at the beginning, with our logo and very first letterhead.\u00a0 They extend throughout our publications, from pages and posters to booklets and books, including our copyright multilingual font Bembino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Starting with this:<\/p>\n

Question<\/span>. What were the steps through which our design approach developed?<\/p>\n

Taking it from the top, Leslie took its explorations from there, with a few more questions along the way.\u00a0 Having participated in parts of the processes of design, and continuing to learn much from them, I could mention, as an easy prompt, some elements deserving recollection within the evolution.<\/p>\n

\"Cover<\/a>We present the interview here in the form of a printed and printable booklet.\u00a0 Naturally it employs our own Research Group copyright font, and its design and layout correspond with the principles of our Style Manifesto<\/a>.\u00a0 Like very many of our Publications<\/a> \u2014 including this website and also Bembino<\/a> \u2014 it is freely available.<\/p>\n

Below, you can download the Interview in PDF.\u00a0 First, as the interviewer, I offer a few illustrated remarks to set the scene.<\/p>\n

This method of presentation is similar to that chosen for Leslie’s Report on some New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian<\/a>, with my illustrated blogpost introducing his downloadable Booklet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Published on 5 October 2016<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Through the Years<\/h3>\n

Since the beginnings of the Research Group (1989\u2013), while we were based at the Parker Library<\/a> of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (to 1994), and beyond, in our years based in the United States (1994\u2013), Leslie has designed very many of our Publications<\/a>, including our<\/p>\n