{"id":1999,"date":"2010-12-15T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/vintage_indian\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:08:35","slug":"vintage_indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/vintage_indian\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Indian paperback covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So exciting!<\/strong> Check out these glorious examples of lettering in various Indic scripts, gathered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ajourneyroundmyskull\/sets\/72157622275539983\/\"  title=\"A journey round my skull\">this Flickr set<\/a>, with a bit more info over at the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/vintage-indian-pulp-book-of-month-club.html\" >A Journey Round My Skull<\/a>. So pretty! And a bit of a goldmine for my ongoing research about Indic typefaces and how they can be influenced by vernacular sources.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/3880527038_b1e20b12d6_b.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Bengali pulp\" vspace=\"5\"  \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/3880527494_9cecd5b921_b.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Gurmukhi pulp\" vspace=\"5\"  \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/3524187126_73ceb2a19d_b.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Malayalam pulp\"vspace=\"5\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So exciting! Check out these glorious examples of lettering in various Indic scripts, gathered in this Flickr set, with a bit more info over at the blog A Journey Round My Skull. So pretty! And a bit of a goldmine for my ongoing research about Indic typefaces and how they can be influenced by vernacular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/vintage_indian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage Indian paperback covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77505,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/77505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}