It is true that beauty is an aesthetic judgment, and thus personal and subjective.Just as there are beautiful Scotch Roman typefaces - and hideous ones that were all too common in 19th Century print… (View Post)
Text editors that only use fixed-width typefaces, because they're intended for editing computer programs, rarely offer their users the option of turning advanced OpenType features on and off. So usin… (View Post)
If it were combined with the claim that it was as good as what those people produce, yes. But absent such a claim, it's merely a warning, and not an insult. And not necessarily a warning that the te… (View Post)
Back in the metal type era, it was considered an achievement when type foundries standardized the position of the baseline. Normally, there were three standard positions; one for titling faces, a &qu… (View Post)
The early laser printers contained the fonts inside themselves, rather than getting data on the shape of characters from a graphical operating system on the computer. The HP LaserWriter had Helvetica… (View Post)