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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
He's got plenty of copies for sale at the Museum of Printing but it doesn't appear they have an online store, you may have to call to buy.2 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Frank Romano did a book all about this, it’s called The History of the Phototypsetting Era. It’s hard to find a copy for sale but you can probably get one through an inter-library loan.2 -
METAFONT in 2023: "Nupuram" (Malayalam) typeface by Santhosh Thottingal
https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf Very cool stuff!!7 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
You could try Affinity Photo. It has pretty robust OpenType support and is a pretty good alternative to Photoshop (and much less expensive).1 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I try to avoid neutral. Being in gear takes one much further.2 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Softmaker may have noticed that I did a revival of a particular font, as they renamed their very limited and very rough digitization of it to match my unique (but not trademarked) name. When I notice…5 -
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
