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[email protected] ~/Library/Fonts $ grep 'glyf' *otf | wc -l
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Also, this variant of Gill Sans has always been of categorical interest, since it straddles the presumed boundary between ur Humanist and ur Geometric designs. (View Post)

Also, if a book is from 1945, it would kind of have to have been in a metal typeface. Phototypesetting hadn't been invented yet. (Actually, that's not strictly true, but it most definitely would not … (View Post)

Monotype sold matrices for a number of variant glyphs that could make Gill Sans look more Futura-like, since the company didn't have rights to adapt Futura to its machines. (Linotype similarly made F… (View Post)

Yes, it’s Monotype’s “infant” Gill, with the single-bowl /a and /g, which found popularity as an adult face in mid-century-modern France and Germany, being slightly more continental and “Futuristic” … (View Post)

(Quote) It was specifically to address one aspect of such situations that ATypI voted to remove the old Code Morale from the statutes at the 2004 AGM in Prague. At the time, there was interest among … (View Post)

The thing that's most relevant to this conversation is what's going on with uber and lift drivers in the past couple years. If the journalists' summaries of things is accurate, it seems like courts a… (View Post)

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Hi Jason, I'm a moderator and admin of TypeDrawers. Real names are required, as is outlined in the TypeDrawers Rules, linked at the top of the main TypeDrawers forum. To everyone in … (View Post)

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ATypI has few significant functional limitations due to being based in the USA. The problem is first and foremost about having key members based in the USA. I don’t immediately recal… (View Post)

Hi folks, I'm trying to understand better why in the type design community I keep coming across Vasil's attitude (no offence Vasil). In my experience, more than other profession type designers seem t… (View Post)