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Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Even with Vignelli’s list as given, my first question is… WHICH Garamond and which Bodoni? Also, I would put a humanist sans serif (e.g. Myriad) on the list and drop one of the non-Garamond serif fac…2 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Right, and there were at least half a dozen major versions of Garamond available at the time. I guess if you were using phototype or hot metal, it would be whatever your particular machinery maker o…1 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Since Massimo was credited with that selection in the 1960s, he was probably looking at types earlier than that. I heard him repeat that selection of types during a meeting in1976 but I don't think i…7 -
Re: Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature
Nice font! Good luck!1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
When creating a new font, I'll typically use the "shell" (file) of an old font, especially if I know that it's going to use the same glyphsets and general measurements (Cap height, X height…5 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
For my original retail designs, I do usually start from scratch. However, I find that corporate clients who ask for custom designs generally want something that looks a lot like something else. In th…2 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
So do you: https://fonts.google.com/analytics Your proposal would net you $1M just for Slabo. :-)2 -
Re: Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature
Lcaron is a letter of its own and it is no good idea to mess it up with the sequence of two other characters L apostrophe. The slovak capital caron also looks usually different than the general apost…4 -
Re: compare point placement
fontdiffenator has a visual comparison; not exactly what you have in mind, I suppose, but still useful. I suppose you could ttx/ufo the files, or use fonttools directly, diff the parsed output. Compa…1 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
I would settle for a 0.0001 cent royalty on each view of my fonts served by Google Fonts. They have the analytics.3
