ChrisL

Oh. I thought you were sending people here.

Geez, Carl, you should have posted that website with a warning notice.... ;-)

Thanks, Jason: I’ve got just the place for that news item!

Some have just gone into hiding
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3665735.stm

Tim

OK, call me stupid and unlearned, but what precisely does “sheep stealing” refer to in typography/graphic design?

(When I use the term it generally means something different again!)

Goudy was quoted as saying it.

timd
I love the way it says, “...when he was finally spotted they did not immediately recognise him as a sheep. He looked like some biblical creature,” as if a sheep is not a biblical creature.

It stems dfrom the old typographic expression, “Those who would letterspace lowercase would also steal sheep.” Some might prefer the original “Shag sheep” to the cleaned up version :-)

ChrisL

This can’t be true—everybody knows that the sheep in NZ sleep with one eye open. Or was it the Welsh sheep? Bugger...