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Re: Industry Letter to Copyright Office - Please Share
It’s my guess that the management of Monotype has been ordered by the company’s owners, HGGC, to do whatever they can to increase the value of the company so it can be sold off without too much of a …1 -
Re: Weight of a printing press stereotype plate?
This is a tough ask! Some years ago I was asked to convert a complex Jewish prayerbook I designed and produced to a form that could be converted to Braille. This proved to be a deep rabbit hole, but …1 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
Palatino was that rare typeface that survived relatively unscathed in the transitions from metal to film to digital. (It even survived blatant rip-offs.) What helped was its lack of very thin lines a…1 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
An interesting Tuscan with medial decoration was made in the 1780s by Jean-Gabriel Bery, a French stencil maker. A set of Bery stencils (some 4000 of them) was purchased in France by no less than Ben…8 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
It seems to me that poor spacing as a “symbol of humility” is similar to claiming that ransom note typography expresses universalist (I.e., catholic [lc]) sentiment. The disgraceful performance of le…7
