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Adam — Keep in mind that when CH Griffith designed Monticello for Linotype in the mid 20th century, he was explicitly trying to recreate the idiosyncrasies and capture the historical charm of Binny &… (View Post)

(Quote) Speaking of selective and sensitive diversification of the like/related design elements. Griffith’s and Carter’s Monticello (Linotype: 1946, 2002) is a good example. (View Post)

Nick — The font profiles used by Knopf in their colophons tended to be reused, not written anew each time. This Electra description is quite familiar to me. I’m sure the editor tasked with composin… (View Post)

There are a lot of smart people in this forum. Considering this fact, it surprises me how often we seem to fall for myths, assumptions, and biases.  It takes more than a look on the surface to under… (View Post)

Well it's been fun Creative Market but any requests for sanity have now fallen on deaf ears as this organization now hellbent on running the font industry into the ground. Meet the NEW Desktop Licen… (View Post)

These Mac Pros are for people doing 4k video editing or very complex 3D modeling. It seems like Apple is trying to win back the high-end users they lost with the stupid trash can Mac Pro train wreck.  (View Post)

Parametric fonts are not really “automated design,” in my opinion. They are a label for a group of technologies. An individual parametric font is a font which can be varied within some parameters. A… (View Post)

The new Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR announced this week are definitely aimed at the high-end film, AR/VR, and audio production market. I know some studios and individuals doing film/music work th… (View Post)

Hrant: I get it, you hate Macs and prefer Windows. Fine. But you don't need to insult people who prefer something you don't. (View Post)

No, in Romanian the comma accent shouldn't be connected to the S or T for Scommaaccent and Tcommaaccent. Whoever said that to Wes must have confused the comma accent with cedilla. (View Post)