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Re: When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
Love the question too! I haven’t found a typeface example before Florian’s 1881, but there were plenty that arrived later that decade. Other prominent early ones below. All but one of these (Typo) ar…7 -
When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
There's a period charm to typefaces with intentionally high middles of letters like /B/E/F/H/K/S. Sometimes A/P/R join in, or sometimes they instead have intentionally low middles. /M and /W and…5 -
Re: When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
Interesting question! I don’t know about “first”, but there are a couple of American typeface designs that (partly) precede the mentioned trends and protagonists. Here’s Eccentric (1881) and Dynamo (…7 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
After the discussion went a bit off the rails, let me quickly go to bat for what the plugin currently makes possible: I'm not heavily into font production, but ten years of customer feedback (bo…5 -
Michael Doret gets local news shout out for designing the NY Knicks logo
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2026/06/08/meet-the-artist-who-designed-the-knicks-logo-michael-doret?cid=share_clip7 -
Re: Critique Request for Hibur Mono (a new Ethiopic Typeface)
It seems like you have remained strictly monoline, even when needing to squeeze four vertical elements in a glyph. This leads to those glyphs getting quite dark, and maybe somewhat less legible. I fi…6 -
Re: A new Wakamai Fondue
Currently there is no guide, but you're comfortable in HTML/JS/CSS you could either clone the Wakamai Fondue website and use that as a basis to create your own version to be incorporated in any …5 -
Re: Seminar on May 21: BULLETPROOF YOUR FONT LICENCES
We shouldn't gate-keep, James. Are we not supposed to help new designers?? There are many people starting up and are hard pressed to figure things out. There are also experienced foundries who s…6 -
Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book
I just wanted to share a fun find that I don't believe I've run into anywhere online. It's a specimen book put out by the Linotype Composition Company of Baltimore, Maryland, a photo t…8 -
Re: CIↃ in print
Something like these?* https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t3kw6dx9j&seq=11 * https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8wznQSXf6xMC/page/n5/mode/2up5
