The type industry is:* Monotype: a company that gobbled up some smaller but important companies, giving it ownership of thousands of old font trademarks, copyrights, and source files. Monotype is als… (View Post)
You aren’t going to find many good pre-1800s typefaces that haven’t already been revived. That mountain has been strip mined. Take a look at Vervliets’s French Renaissance Printing Types: A Conspectu… (View Post)
I could see using AI to bang out math characters. They’re not too annoying in a single font but I don’t want to fuck with them in a typeface that has width and weight axes with matching obliques. And… (View Post)