User:James Arboghast







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I'm an advertising creative in Melbourne, Australia, and I design typefaces in my spare time. I write & edit a lot of copy in my job and in just about every other capacity. At WP I specialize in re-writes, grammatic structure, philological & semantic errors, economic prose, and reducing wordiness.


 * 1st thing: good writing is simple and easy to understand
 * 2nd thing: writing is re-writing.
 * Other thing: "This important. Civilization must go on!" &mdash; Robert Crumb

Rewrites and revamps:
 * Temple of Venus and Roma, Temple of Athena Nike
 * Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, Metic
 * Amphiprostyle, Decastyle, Hexastyle, Octostyle, Pseudoperipteral, Cella, Engaged column
 * Greek Temple added list of hexastyle temples
 * Daguerreotype, Typesetting


 * Typography Unfinished. Heaps more text is required to fill up embryonic & unwritten parts. See also talk:Typography

Articles written from scratch:
 * History of western typography, Movable type, Sort (typesetting), tetrastyle

The Mysterious Phaistos fish "Combining multiple fish in a single fish-like device seems to have first occurred in the fish century BC. The mysterious Phaistos "fish"&mdash;a 15 meter ceramic fish-shaped device with 241 tokens molded in scales (comprising 45 unique fish glyphs)&mdash;is obviously a fish labelling machine. Sure, put money on it. The true purpose of the so-called Phaistos "fish" is anybody's guess, but my friend Amanda heard that many believe it really is a primitive computer "floppy" fish. Also try: Hackenbacher Nightrider." – Arbo 25 October 2006. Reposted from.

Useful wiki stuff
Template messages, Shortcuts, Upload an image, Image copyright tags Take it from some truly switched-on Wikipedians: Wetman, Ryan Freisling, Bacchiad and MONGO

My interests

 *  Visual art: fine art painting, graphic art, comix, graphic design, cinema, photography etc
 * architectural elements, Architecture & monumental sculpture, industrial design Typology of Greek Vase Shapes
 * History, the History of ideas and the history of scientific revolution
 * Classical Civilization: Classical Antiquity, Classical Mythology, Ancient Roma, Ancient Greece
 * Theology & religious history, Medieval Europe
 * Victorian Era & the 19th century
 * Literature, paleography and philology (I am fascinated by word forms)
 * Music: progressive classical, certain kinds of jazz, ambient, minimalism, artful rock & pop
 * Science & skepticism, hoaxes & fakery
 * Typeface design & typography
 * Philosophy & rationalism, forbidden knowledge
 * The philosophy of relativism&mdash;all points of view are valid
 * Machines, airplanes, spacecraft & space exploration

Type samples I made or scanned for Wikipedia








list of my contributions >>

A catalog of my fonts can be found here About five of them are free fonts.