ATypI Conference. México, 2009
eng
José Scaglione (typetogether.com) and Andreu Balius will present a talk about the history and contemporary use of the "eñe" caracter in spanish-speaking countries. The lecture will be part of the main conference programme of annual ATypI, happening at MIDE, in the historical center of México City.
Ñ: A sign to convey a sound
The alphabet used by the Romans –Latin– had twenty-one letters and it was enough for all the phonemes needed to articulate it. But as its descendants developed, they gave birth to new phonemes, new sounds that evolved out of spoken Latin, and they presented problems of spelling. Scribes had to find new ways of representing new sounds. This lecture describes in detail the development and use of one of these sounds, the ntilde character, which became a symbol of literature and culture for all the spanish-speaking countries in the world. The “ñ” is the uncontested representative of the spanish language, currently spoken by over 400 million people around the globe and the most studied romance tongue in the world.
Andreu Balius will present another talk, together with Albert Corbeto about the collection of punches from the spanish Royal Printing House. The lecture will be also a part of the main conference programme of the ATypI, happening at MIDE, in the historical center of México City.
The punches from the Spanish Royal printing house
The aim of this talk is to show and put into context the typographic materials, currently kept in Barcelona, which used to belong to the Spanish Royal Printing Press typefoundry, together with the study tasks that are being done on them. This remarkably rich collection is made up of a thousand punches, most of them cut by Jerónimo Gil for the Royal Library typefoundry during the second half of the eighteenth century, and of others that were either made by foreign punchcutters or at the Royal Printing Press Engraving and Punchcutting School. A large number of sets of matrices have also been kept, among which it is worth mentioning the ones belonging to the Italian typographer Giambattista Bodoni and those of the Frenchmen Didot and Molé.
Published: 27/09/2009
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