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October 12-17

"Type-Story:

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An exhibition on the history of typographic design

San Jose State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Doves was created by Thomas James Cobden Sanderson and

Emery Walker. In 1900 the Doves press was established. The
orgininal doves font was engraved by Edward Prince. It was
created to attack the problems of typography. The typeface
would not distract the reader from the ideas within the text
itself. It was mostly used in press publications including the
iconic edition of the King James Bible. There was a fued between the partners which ended tragically by 1906. In 1917
the Doves press had been officially closed. Thomes James
Coden did not want to share the type with anyone else, so he
threw the the metal type into the thame. It took him between
August 1916 through January 1917 to completely disgardall
the metal prints, book binder, and printer. In 2013 Robert
Green reproduces the type face digitally.

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