BACKGROUND: Leyden News is a variant of Leyden, optimised for use in magazines, papers and news-letters, where type is often of necessity smallish and compact. This means that while basic Leyden letterforms are used, x-height is larger and detail work is more robust and sometimes simplified, all in the interest of high legibility when printing small size type on indifferent paper, and often with indifferent printing too. In spite of this, figures remain lower-case or ranging, though the bold and bold italic styles, which will mainly be used for headers, have upper-case or lining figures.
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BY: LARS BERGQUIST
Lars Bergquist, of Timberwolf Type, born in 1936, is a self-proclaimed "leftover from the age of lead type and letterpress printing." His first avocation was history, which may well explain his love of classical letterforms, historically significant typefaces and "...fuddy-duddy typography in general." Recently retired from a lifetime in the technically advanced field of reference publishing, he has decided to spend his next life as a dedicated type designer. His typeface Absolut Type -- published by PSY/OPS as Aalborg -- received a Certificate of Excellence in the Bukva:raz! type contest arranged by the ATypI in 2001. He has been happily married to the same woman since 1964, lives outside Stockholm, Sweden, and has two daughters and a grandson. His atypical interests are history, small arms, photography and hiking in the mountains of Lapland.
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