{"id":2744,"date":"2013-06-15T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/discovering_mer\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:27:28","slug":"discovering_mer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/discovering_mer\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Mercurius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"A Living History of Type: Mercurius Discovered\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68051476?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a few months old,<\/strong> but it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that I&#8217;ve been delinquent about posting it here for posterity. (Blah blah not paying enough attention to the blog yadda yadda.) Over the last year, we&#8217;ve been letting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandad.org\">D&amp;AD<\/a> come down to <a href=\"http:\/\/monotype.com\">Monotype<\/a>&#8216;s archive in Salfords to film people exploring the material there. The resulting film clips are part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandad.org\/inspiration\/inspired-by\/typography\">Inspired by Typography<\/a> section on their site, part of a growing collection of material to hopefully get people excited about this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>In this clip, I go fishing through a box of original drawings to investigate some things drawn by the mysterious Fritz Steltzer, and then come across some really sublime original drawings by Imre Reiner for his typeface <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linotype.com\/248190\/MercuriusScript-family.html\" target=\"'_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercurius Script<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never seen Mercurius before, and when we filmed this I thought it may have been an unreleased design \u2014 or at least one never digitized \u2014 but it turns out it&#8217;s still available. I&#8217;m not completely wild about the actual typeface, which somehow lacks the ZING of the original drawings. I think it may be mostly an issue of spacing and fit, so maybe I&#8217;ll get an opportunity to tinker it with it someday and see if I can get it right.<\/p>\n<p>I also make a few guest appearances in this earlier video they shot at the office:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSWidniTFyw?si=Pr7vxZuUIVovXUmO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a few months old, but it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that I&#8217;ve been delinquent about posting it here for posterity. (Blah blah not paying enough attention to the blog yadda yadda.) Over the last year, we&#8217;ve been letting the D&amp;AD come down to Monotype&#8216;s archive in Salfords to film people exploring the material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/discovering_mer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discovering Mercurius&#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":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultramedia","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","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=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71243,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/71243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}