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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
My first job in NYC was with a Phototypesetting firm. I was in the art bullpen. One of my jobs was to paint out the scratches on the glass font plates. It seems I was the only one with a steady enoug…2 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Softmaker scooped up an old font of mine (Beowulf-1, released in the mid-90s before I knew anything about Libre licenses--it has only a copyright notice), renamed it as "British," and now s…3 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
I don't think the Indian rupee symbol works. Look at how it relates to Devanagari letter र (ra). To avoid congestion in the = part, you can make the bowl taller than the official design.3 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
I have used gaps in currency like that at micro sizes, same form as your ruble. the designer reviewing the cyrillic pointed it out as something that felt odd... I think you can get away with it, if y…1 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
@"J. Bridges" you'd be well served to make a trip to the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA and you'd have every question you have answered - https://museumofprinting.org/3 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
It depends on the system. There were digital typesetting systems going back to the early seventies, not super high quality, mainly used at newspapers. I'm not sure how the fonts were distributed…4 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I find the idea of a perfect chair absurd in the extreme. How can something outside of the abstract realm of math even be objectively perfect?3 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
OPTI is a label used by Castcraft (also/previously known as Typefounders of Chicago and Type Films of Chicago) for digital fonts they produced around the early 1990s. My understanding is that virtual…10 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Castcraft was notorious in the sixties and seventies for pirating film fonts for headline setting machines, such as the Typositor. They would acquire a film fonts from franchisees of VGC (who also ma…7 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
It is certainly tempting to think that we aspire to draw the ideal form of every character, specially when it comes to typefaces for running text. So if I am doing a Renaissance typeface, my (never r…1
