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Re: A new Art Deco, and the hunt for Broadway Greek/Cyrillic
That new option 7 looks best to me, with option 5 in second place.5 -
Re: All caps descender setting
I usually set it to the ogonek and section symbol.7 -
Re: Looking for specimen with crossword puzzles
It’s indeed type, and exactly as you, Khai, assumed, it’s from Deberny & Peignot. The foundry shows this set in two variants in their 1930s specimen catalog under the header Les Mots Croisés.Thes…7 -
Re: What are the top 50 foundries today?
I'm glad there's interest in a talk! I've been thinking about putting one together now that I have a year and a half of data running both the simple license and the traditional licenses side by side.…6 -
Re: On behalf of a historian: typefaces related to Lincoln assassination
I can’t speak for the moderators, but I certainly wouldn’t class this request in the same category as ‘What’s this cool font I saw?’5 -
Re: On behalf of a historian: typefaces related to Lincoln assassination
I’ll make a start.“BENEFIT!” is an Antique Tuscan Condensed Shade.“LAURA KEENE” is an Antique Condensed.“ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS” is a style related to an Ornamented face shown by Marr in 1853. See also …5 -
Re: What are the top 50 foundries today?
I guess there are many criteria you could use to determine a foundry’s influence. One might be popularity of their fonts. For this, you could start with the foundries behind the typefaces that appear…7 -
Re: Monotype buys Extensis
Some vendors had already reverse-engineered Type 1 by 1988 or 1989. Bitstream, for example, was shipping unauthorized-by-Adobe Type 1 fonts, which they called “Type A” fonts. I bought some in 1989. A…8 -
Re: Monotype buys Extensis
You probably know this, but once Microsoft and Apple announced TrueType, Adobe responded by: 1) Publishing the Type 1 specification 2) Creating a system-level on-screen rendering system for Type 1, …9 -
Re: Microsoft Designer shipped an A.I. Typographer
Of course they do, because like all AI output there is no actual thought behind them. No one has sat down and considered how to make something different than what has already been done ad nauseam. An…6
