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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 -
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
