John Higgins -Royal Mail stamps

[Colin YNWA]

John Higgins has drawn some stamps commemorating the Great Fire of London. See more here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37247565

[Proudhuff]

Is that Defoe and some zombies I see?

[sheridan]

I missed out on getting the British comics and Neil Gaiman / Dave McKean's mythological stamps, but may find myself attempting to get this set.  I say attempt, because I did try to get the mythological stamps, but the people at the local-to-work main post office were rather clueless...

[sheridan]

Mythical Creatures

Comics

[Michael Knight]

Snapping these up

[Jim_Campbell]

The sound you can hear is the weeping of letterers across the land.

[Trout]

The sound you can hear is the weeping of letterers across the land.

As usual, I didn't notice the crossbars until Jim pointed them out.

I do, however, stand in solidarity with you, Jim. I now manage a newspaper production team making sure 1.6 million people get the news every day, and nobody has a chuffing clue about what any of us actually do. 

[Jim_Campbell]

I do, however, stand in solidarity with you, Jim. I now manage a newspaper production team making sure 1.6 million people get the news every day, and nobody has a chuffing clue about what any of us actually do. 

Former newspaper production manager, also. I don't half pick my careers... :-)

[Hawkmumbler]

Well aren't those just the dandiest little things.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

They look great!

If you're on instagram, then look at royalmailgroup for some sound effects and a bit of animation with each stamp from their last 6 posts.

[hippynumber1]

The sound you can hear is the weeping of letterers across the land.

Forgive my ignorance but why?

[Jim_Campbell]

Forgive my ignorance but why?

In comic book lettering fonts, both the upper and lower case character sets give capitals, with slight variations in letterform to stop the lettering looking too mechanical. The lower case I gives you a straight vertical stroke, whilst the upper gives you an I with crossbars top and bottom. The 'crossbar I' (in English) is reserved specifically the pronoun 'I':

[hippynumber1]

Cheers. That's really interesting and, now you've pointed it out and explained it, those capital 'I's are really jarring.

[hippynumber1]

I am literally just reading Devlin Waugh 'Red Tide' and both Tom Frame and Peter Doherty use the 'I' throughout while Annie Parkhouse favours the method you explain; is it then just a matter of preference rather than one being considered 'wrong'? I'm genuinely interested in this by the way.

[Proudhuff]

Dear Grud don't get hIm started...