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Adapting someone else's typeface design..Revival or Remix
Llyr Attala
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February 2014
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Hi there, it would be great to hear some of your opinions on tweaking/sampling/adapting or reviving someone else's typeface design?
Thanks so much for your time!
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James Puckett
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February 2014
Is there something in particular that you need to know? Because this horse has been beaten from every possible angle over the last hundred years.
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Nick Shinn
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February 2014
edited February 2014
Over 150 years:
Love that phrase: “…mere effigies of letters.”
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Dave Crossland
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February 2014
Nick!!! OMG that is outstanding!! where is that sourced from?
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Nick Shinn
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February 2014
James Mosley posted it in this thread on the origin of Bold:
http://www.typophile.com/node/31036
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Chris Lozos
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February 2014
Damn, Typophile was really good back then!
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Love that phrase: “…mere effigies of letters.”