Rotis (1988) pioneered the concept of a semiserif that sits between a sans and a serif a few years before. Woellmer’s Consul is an example for stylistic sets from 1903. Not necessarily the first of i… (View Post)
For more visual examples of one-sided strokes on Ł, see this Flickr thread, including signs, commemorative plaques, shop fronts, handwritten price tags. I wondered whether it’s acceptable for native … (View Post)
OPTI is a label used by Castcraft (also/previously known as Typefounders of Chicago and Type Films of Chicago) for digital fonts they produced around the early 1990s. My understanding is that virtual… (View Post)
Even for techniques unrelated to typesetting machines (or body text, for that matter), Times was a standard long before the Mac: Letraset carried Times Bold as early as 1960, as one of their first do… (View Post)
Mark, thank you for sharing these insights! This sounds like a great book indeed.I once made me a cheat sheet for telling apart Times and Times New Roman (the system versions on Mac OS and MS Windows… (View Post)