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Re: Type Identification (Historical)
Not sure if I can help, but here it goes. The first printing types originally developed in Portugal, were designed by the french typographer Jean de Villeneuve (João de Villeneuve, in portuguese) in …5 -
Re: "Dawson Grotesque" Please critique
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” —Jean Cocteau Considering one’s reputation, it might be best to release, as one’s first publication, a work that is unabashedly rough around…5 -
Re: TYPE "A Magazine for People Curious About Fonts"
Not tactless. We haven't officially set the annual price but want to make sure it is affordable. Likely in the $30 USD range.7 -
Re: Interesting piece of letterform history
Here you go: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_81/December_1912/The_Evolution_of_the_Dollar_Mark#/media/File:PSM_V81_D534_The_modern_dollar_mark_in_the_making.png From an …5 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q1
Smallcaps, super- and subscript, and numeral style/spacing variants are the bulk of discretionary OTL glyph creation work in our European script fonts. Obviously these then also need to be kerned, to…6 -
Re: TYPE "A Magazine for People Curious About Fonts"
Now pondering the question am I font-curious? Is this magazine for me?6 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q1
I hate to say this, but I do not see at all why the effort of type designers will have any impact on support from apps. Software product managers are much more interested in what their users want, an…10 -
Re: Asset managers for corporate licensees – “normals" or font people?
Speaking as one of those Global Font Managers (Pearson), aside from my successor at PRH, I have not heard of anyone else that focuses solely on fonts and digital typography. I came into the role (whe…6 -
Re: Web Font Security
"I will build a great web font DRM solution — and nobody builds DRM better than me, believe me —and I'll build it very inexpensively. I will build a great, great DRM solution for our web fo…12 -
TYPE "A Magazine for People Curious About Fonts"
I'm excited to announce that Roger Black and I have launched a website/blog for our new publication "TYPE." https://www.typemag.org This website is just the beginning of our plans. Fro…24
