Calendars for 2024

Carl Shank • July 20, 2023

Calendars for 2024. Everyone needs a calendar, and CARE Typography has produced two new 2024 Calendars. Each Calendar has the recognized national holidays cited with a graphic. They are both available in a FREE digital edition AND a beautiful color printed wall calendar edition.


The 2023-2024 Historic Lancaster Calendar is a sixteen-month Calendar with a modern photo supplied by area photographers and historic places noted on the side of the calendar days. This is a Calendar for Lancaster County, PA history buffs as well as those interested in Lancaster County places and sights.


The 2024 Promises of God Calendar is a twelve-month 2024 Calendar with specific verses from Scripture citing the promises of God for Christians. The large graphics have been designed using Kittl templates. Each month is a reminder of God's gracious promises to his people. It is also available as a FREE digital calendar as well as a beautiful color printed wall calendar.


The printed color wall calendar editions can be purchased from the Bookstore at www.lulu.com under the name "Carl Shank." Prices are given in the Ad below.


We invite you to purchase both for your home or office!

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The Legibility Group

By Carl Shank • July 29, 2026
The Legibility Group. This group of typefaces comes from the The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was a company founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. The company became the world's leading manufacturer of newspaper and book typesetting equipment. The Legibility Group is a series of serif typefaces intended for use in newspapers on Linotype's hot metal typesetting system. They were developed in-house by Linotype's design team, led by Chauncey H. Griffith and released from 1925, when the first member, Ionic No. 5, appeared. The family became a large group due to the creation of slightly different designs for different printing conditions, such as levels of inking used in different newspaper production processes and versions with different x-heights. [6] [b] Linotype carried out a survey of optometrists as part of their research processIt consisted of Ionic No. 5, Textype, Excelsior, Opticon, Paragon and Corona. Although not part of the family, Linotype marketed its sans-serif family Metro and slab serif face Memphis as effective complements for headings.

English Penman Calligraphic Fonts

By Carl Shank • July 13, 2026
George Bickham the Elder (b. 1684) was one of the most influential English engravers, calligraphers, and writing masters of the eighteenth century. Although he was a capable print engraver, his lasting significance lies in his role in preserving and popularizing English Round Hand (later known as Copperplate script) through beautifully engraved writing manuals. His work shaped business handwriting, penmanship education, typography, and ornamental lettering for generations. He trained as both a writing master and an engraver, two professions that were closely linked before the advent of modern printing. Rather than merely copying handwriting, he engraved elaborate penmanship examples onto copper plates, allowing thousands of identical, highly detailed specimens to be printed. He became renowned for his extraordinary ability to translate handwritten originals directly onto copper plates with exceptional fidelity, a skill admired by his contemporaries.
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