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Re: When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
Love the question too! I haven’t found a typeface example before Florian’s 1881, but there were plenty that arrived later that decade. Other prominent early ones below. All but one of these (Typo) ar…7 -
Re: Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
For anyone, like me, who is an Arabic outsider, I can highly recommend this session: From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type Panels don’t always work well, but this one had such …2 -
Re: Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices
To me, the writing smells very strongly of AI. That doesn’t mean the stories behind it aren’t true, but there’s a lot of repetition of general ideas wrapped around very few specifics. The trouble wit…4 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
The original European issue of Palatino in metal had most of those shapes. In About Alphabets (1970), Zapf says he was advised (by folks like Paul Standard and W. A. Dwiggins) that the American marke…10 -
Re: Fonts Ninja (online type index)
It’s a little disappointing to see that many typefaces lack links to their foundry’s sites. Chapman, for instance, is also available from its source, @"James Hultquist-Todd"’s JTD Type. Did…2
