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I can't speak for myself, but I use my Microsoft font vendor code (IDMS) in front of any of my commissioned fonts. That way my Shenandoah Clarendon font stands out from my IDMS Voices Clarendon and I… (View Post)

One piece that is compelling in this discussion: A collective: many foundries together would each need to spend much less on marketing, legal, etc. and the available profits could be more equitably d… (View Post)

Recuttings are possible, but the term “recutting” can only be applied to, well, recuttings of individual type sizes. There are real Garamond matrices in at least two European collections. One could, … (View Post)

By the way, the rhotic hook is also used with consonants in some transcriptions. As Thomas Pellard points out on X (formerly Twitter) as a reply to John’s question, Phoible can be used to search phon… (View Post)

With a large list of files it didn't work properly yet since I wasn't able to scroll down, but it is a fantastic improvement! I love it! (View Post)

In case Jeff's comment gets missed from above. John Downer's Essay from Emigre: https://www.emigre.com/Essays/Type/CallItWhatItIs (View Post)

Looks like Vanilla doesn't handle URLs set within parentheses very smartly (at least with my browser). If you're trying to follow Tom's links above and they don't work, make sure to delete the traili… (View Post)

I've also been trying to figure out a character set to use, and am as frustrated and confused as you sound. One of the things I've done is to look at the character sets developed by foundries I like … (View Post)

I started my type design career as an intern at Linotype in 1998 🥲 (View Post)

Not really Type, but language, and without language there is no type. Anyway are truely fascinating piece:… (View Post)