When students today need to take notes, they simply reach for their ballpoint pens. For students in the past, writing instruments were not so convenient. Quill pens Quill pens were made from large bird feathers. Students sharpened the quills with knives and then dipped them into pots of ink ...
A quillis a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. ...
When working on book design for a story set during World War II, Todd used serif fonts to give readers the feeling they were in a world that existed prior to modern design conventions. Serifs aren’t just aesthetic, though. They also have real functional value as body copy. “Serifs ...
The county council has provided a one and a half acre site for the centre in the village, next to Quills, and it is expected to open in three years. Derry: A tornado that struck near Eglinton last month took the roof off a farm building where a number of men were working, but ...
So, grab your quills and join the conversation! The “death of the author” might just be the spark we need to breathe new life into our favorite tales, and who knows? We might even find a few hidden treasures along the way. In a world where both the creators and their creations live...
“Serif fonts can have a more clinical and institutional look to them,” says Todd, who uses serif fonts to evoke earlier eras. When working on book design for a story set during World War II, Todd used serif fonts to give readers the feeling they were in a world that existed prior to...