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Re: Grotesk / Grotesque
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, several of the sans serif typefaces sold in Germany were imported by German foundries from British ones, and/or exact copies were made illicitly via electroplati…7 -
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Hello Everybody, I'm Daniel Riley, a junior type designer. I'm from Liverpool, England, but I live and work in Berlin and coming to the end of my Internship at Mota Italic.I've been on type drawers f…1 -
Re: Grotesk / Grotesque
There are a few exceptions, but usually German Grotesk faces feature a single-story /g, British Grotesque faces feature a double-story /g.2 -
Re: Established foundry threatening legal action for alleged infringement.
In what jurisdiction is this? Is the claim that the designs are similar or that the font is derived from theirs? Is the threatened legal action a copyright suit, a patent suit, or ?4 -
Re: Font pairing across writing systems
Type people always talk about how "fonts matter". But, many cease to champion their value upon departing the Latin script. To suggest that system fonts are a "style" suitable acr…2 -
Re: Font pairing across writing systems
Unfortunately, brands do not always listen to type designers. Many of the brands have a system for assessing the need for localization of corporate fonts - this is an additional cost, so you need to…1 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
Something I think needs to be said in this thread, even though its said often elsewhere, is that retail fonts take a long time to start selling in a noticeable way. I know retail is only part of the …11 -
Re: LBearing & RBearing in zero-width glyph
By definition, wherever the left sidebearing is set is x=0.2 -
Re: Seeking Advice and Help from Type Techies
It should be possible to get Linotype (respectively its owner, Monotype) to modify the fonts for you. Expect a couple hundred dollars in fees, though. The fonts Hermès uses contain the standard weste…2 -
Re: LBearing & RBearing in zero-width glyph
Correct. Any coordinate to the left of the 0,0 is a negative x value, and any coordinate to the right is a positive x value. [The ‘right side bearing’ of a glyph is a glyph editing tool calculated di…1
