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Re: NEED SUPPORT for Words of Type, an online and multilingual encyclopaedia for typographic terms.
Good luck Lisa, hope the campaign succeeds! I'm reminded of Legros & Grant, Typographical Printing Surfaces (1916), one of my favorite vintage type reference books (fully available on Google…1 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
When typesetting machines were delivered to customers, they always had to include at least one font, or they would have been useless. At ATypI Dublin, Robin Nicholas told me that – back in the 1960s …7 -
Re: Kerning of serif font....
I just want to really emphasize the principle @"Andreas Stötzner" mentioned, of being ABSOLUTELY SURE you are done with spacing, before you start kerning. Really, really, really certain. On…4 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
Brings back memories of Hinting TNRoman for Windows 3.1... : )1 -
Re: Kerning of serif font....
… but that ability is essential for the matter, you need to learn to see spacing issues, first. Without the ability of visual judgement you will not get satisfying results, whatever other tools you …8 -
Re: Kerning of serif font....
Hoefler's proofs may help as they provides words for metrics and kerning. grab 'em here: https://www.typography.com/blog/text-for-proofing-fonts3 -
Re: Hello from Nantes!
Welcome @"Lisa Huang"! I enjoyed working with you in production on the variable version of Google’s Material Symbols icon fonts. It was a lovely experience, which is why I hired you more th…2 -
Re: Hello from the East of England
It’s an honor to have you here! I always liked your Letraset text fonts from the 90s. I remember staring at a feature about Elysium, Charlotte and Gilgamesh in U&Lc, as I recall. I quite like you…2 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Caren, I wouldn't malign PEs just because they're PEs. Some PEs are happy to remain hands-off and are just fine with a steady return on their investments. Some even contribute to industry g…9
