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ITC used Book and Medium frequently: * ITC American Typewriter Medium * ITC Avant Garde Book and Medium * ITC Bauhaus Medium * ITC Benguiat Book and Medium * ITC Benguiat Gothic Book and Medium * ITC… (View Post)

Yes, it matters. Foundries don’t need to compromise on anything, but they DO need to do the things they can to avoid unneeded size bloat. Making good use of TrueType components for example. Users are… (View Post)

Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kupfers/8257985061/ (View Post)


I’ll just point out the Caflisch Script was created and released years before OpenType and InDesign. Certainly its concept was to create a set of glyphs that could be combined to create a mo… (View Post)


But was Comic Sans revolutionary? The two handwriting fonts FF Hands were released 4 years earlier (1991). Imitating handwriting is what Comic Sans is mostly used for today, though it really… (View Post)

Surely not your priority, but since you have some math characters and they are misaligned, you could read this on the math axis: http://www.typoma.com/publ/20041002-atypi.pdf (View Post)

Dmitry Lamonov’s ALS Lamon stopped me in my tracks when I first encountered it: https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/als-lamon/ I was impressed enough that the design took such a big idea and ex… (View Post)

Your description implies that your client wants full ownership of the typeface — a buyout — not simply an exclusive license. But if that’s not true, then perhaps the client could have a period of exc… (View Post)

No, but I also don't quite grasp what new concepts Helvetica Now or Comic Neue introduced. (View Post)

@"Igor Freiberger" What I'd like to see is a long video going over everything. The quick videos showing individual features are helpful. But I'd like to see how someone actually uses FontLa… (View Post)