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Re: Font Submissions in the 1970's
At first, in the 1960s, there were lots of competitions to kick things off. Nick has some photos of VGC booklets on his Flickr, as one example from phototype times. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nick…6 -
Re: Hoefler&Co sold to Monotype
@"Matthew Smith" This is exactly what is in these take-over contracts usually: absolutely don’t tell your employees! And no one is allowed to ever talk about any of this.4 -
Re: White on black
Apart from ink leaking into un-inked areas and human perception, there is also the physics of light and optics. Erik van Blokland gave some insightful talks on the subject. In the sense of light leak…3 -
Re: Bring back the Off Topic reaction
@"Mark Simonson" I think it was a deliberate decision to make it invisible. If I remember correctly, in the beginning all reactions were “credited”. I feel that was clearer and less confusi…5 -
Re: Contemporary specimen book inspired by the ‘Indie Fonts’ book series
I think there have been four or five now? Maybe more known in Europe but I also don’t think they are super widely available. With little to no curation, I don’t find them especially useful but in 30 …6
