Hugill-Fontanel co-presents at conference
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, associate curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT Libraries, co-presented a keynote speech, “The Seven Lives of a Typeface,” at the Post-Digital Letterpress Printing conference at the University of Porto in Portugal on Jan. 30-31. Fontanel’s talk, co-presented with Richard Kegler, lead designer and founder of P22 type foundry, was based on the type design of Frederic W. Goudy. The Cary Collection has a leading archive of material on Goudy.
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