Richard Lipton

Richard Lipton’s Bickham Script is a flowing, formal script born out of an inspiration to recreate the lettering of 18th century English writing masters as rendered in the magnificent copperplate engravings of George Bickham. This talk will cover the seeds of Lipton’s experience with Bickham’s The Universal Penman, his approach to such an ambitious project, and his thoughts on the use of OpenType font technology and features to achieve the goal of bringing Bickham’s work to practical life.