I would go only for typewriter quotes. I think they don't deserve to be called "dumb". They are easy for metrics, they avoid the use of wrong quotation marks at the end and the beginning of… (View Post)
Tom Mullaney, professor of Chinese history and History of Technology at Stanford University, has a kickstart project for organising a tour exhibition on Chinese typewriters. In our often westernised … (View Post)
I agree with @"David Berlow" the examples of the past do not solve my doubts. As a graphic designer I think I would never use old-style tabular figures in a table. I know the alignment does… (View Post)
I type design even geometric designs are full of optical corrections for getting a good balance in the shapes and make the proportions work. Just to mention some conventions, the upper bowl of B smal… (View Post)
In the typewriter issue of Print, the magazine of the graphic arts, volume 7, number 3, (1952) there is some info about a type designer called C.P. Smith. This is the only data I copied from the mag… (View Post)