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The original version of Fournier was designed French by type designer and engraver Pierre Simon Fournier in 1742, at the time named St Augustin Orginaire. After being trained in art from a young age by his father who was also a type designer, he opened his own type foundry at age 24 in Paris (1936). In 1764 and 1766 he published Manuel Typographique, with two volumes, containing details on the process of hand pressing type, as well as type specimens of the foundry's own fonts. During his time, Fournier was commissioned by Louis XIV and Madame de Pompadour.

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Fournier has a transitional and modern feel, similar to other french typefaces. Elements such as the vertical stress and contrast between thin and thick strokes later became influential in later type designs like Bodoni.

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a brief history of miller t y peface by lula christman Miller was designed by Matthew Carter in 1997 by the Font Bureau, a digital type foundry based in the US. Matthew Carter's type career began after taking an internship Enschedé type foundry in the Netherlands. Here he started off in the punchcutting department and never left.   Later in life he worked both independently as a freelancer as for Bitstream and Linotype. He has also created various typefaces for Microsoft such as Verdana, Georgia and Tahoma and others like Galliard and Bell Centenial, which was designed for American cellular carrier AT&T.

Pastor Wants Communion julie irwin Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church welcomes the baptized and unbaptized, Buddhist and Baha'i at the communion table, and they want the rest of their denomination to do so, too.   Tonight they are proposing a change in the church's constitution that would permit anyone to take communion. Like most Christian denominations, the Presbyterian Church (USA) limits the ritual - which recreates Jesus' meal the night before his crucifixion - to baptized believers.

Miller's form and style is influenced by the classic "scotch roman" style that originated in Scotland and was popular during the nineteenth century. Rather than many of his other projects which were produced for a certain project, Miller was a personal project, yet still became a widely used typeface. In the family, multiple styles exist such as Miller Display and Miller Text, as well as other more recent versions such as Miller Headline and Miller Banner. Because of it's many styles, it is often used in newspapers and magazines such as the Washington Post & Glamour Magazine.

"It's not in keeping with the table manners of Jesus, who sat and ate with anyone," said the Rev. Harold Porter, pastor of Mount Auburn. "It's very inhospitable to have a meal with the doors wide open to all, and then in the course of it set aside this meal and say, 'If you don't believe, you'll have to watch while we eat this.'"   The ritual of eating bread and drinking wine or juice is the central act of Christian worship, but it represents different things in different Christian traditions. Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans believe Jesus is present in the consecrated bread and wine, while other Protestants believe Jesus is present in the community, and the bread and wine.

or the Lord's Supper - has evolved in several denominations. In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for instance, the average age of first communion has dropped from eighth or ninth grade to fifth grade and younger.   The Mount Auburn pastor's congregation first proposed the change in 1989, when it was defeated. If tonight's proposal passes, it will go to the national church's assembly this

Those who disagree with Mount Auburn's proposal say communion requires belief, a point supported by a passage in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians: "For anyone who eats and drinks is eating and drinking his own damnation if he does not recognize the Body."   The Rev. Stephen Eyre, associate pastor of College Hill Presbyterian Church, is among those who believe in a more traditional communion.   "The Lord's Supper is not our rite of initiation," he said. "I appreciate very much their hospitality and outreach, but I don't think this is the best way to go about achieving their ends." In the last few decades, the concept of communion - also known as the Eucharist

summer. He and his congregation believe it is an effective way of evangelizing. "Even if a (non-baptized) person takes communion and nothing happens," the pastor said, "they leave the service feeling they found an extension of God's love in that place."que sus quam, accum quis num aliqui esciam aspicientur repella borruntium que sus quam, accum quis num a

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DTL Nobel (Dutch Type Library) was digitally revived by Andrea Fuchs & Fred Smeijers in 1993, but came from the original typeface Nobel which was designed in 1929 by Dutch type designer Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos. De Roos was trained as a decorative artist, originally as a lithographer but later was employed by the Amsterdam Type Foundry where he became interested in type design. The original

Nobel typeface was an adaptation of the two fonts, Berthold-Grotesk and Futura (which was released just a few years before), who's influence can easilly be seen in its rounded and geometric form. Nobel was also revived once again in the same year as the the Dutch Type Library version by Tobias Frere-Jones of the Font Bureau. Frere-Jones refered to the Nobel typeface as “Futura cooked in dirty pots and pans".


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