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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…5 -
Re: What are the most-viewed fonts in the world?
The 87% is overall use of web fonts, including self-hosted fonts. About 13% of the analysed pages used no web fonts at all. We did take a look at fonts referenced in the CSS font-family property (i.e…5 -
Re: You would think that the Washington Post could do better than this
When I was working on Haffner for TIME back in 2015, I purposely set a meeting with the chief of copyediting to discuss details of their editorial style with her — e.g., use of quotes & dashes, c…5 -
Re: You would think that the Washington Post could do better than this
The cost of adding characters to the fonts would not be exorbitant. Especially not compared to the investment in one’s brand, which distinctive fonts contribute a great deal to. I doubt it is ultimat…8 -
Re: Check language support tools
Shaperglot is now web based! https://googlefonts.github.io/shaperglot I think this is impressive rust/wasm work from @"Simon Cozens", as this language checking tool is better than anything …6
