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Re: Show me your failures!
Here are a couple of my early attempts at type design (way before I could do it on my own computer). The first is from 1976, when I was in college. An assignment in Lettering II, drawn in ink on a fu…6 -
Re: Show me your failures!
Indeed there's no better teacher than being wrong in public. My first fonts were on 8×8 bitmaps, which means they couldn't be very good or very bad. But my first outline font had plenty of …8 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
They may look interesting isolated on white in a specimen, but one thing that just seems impractical to me about using these, even just for display work, is that if exact color values are baked into …13 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Hmm, interesting. My initial reaction was, "I don't think in black and white, I think in positive and negative space," and believed the premise was flawed. And obviously, using color a…9 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
You are aware that up to 8% of Caucasian males and 1% of Caucasian females have some degree of red-green color blindness? It is one of the most widely-known and common X-linked inherited illnesses. &…9 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Maybe Type designers think in terms of black and white because whoever uses our typefaces can adjust the color as he/she pleases? I don't see why a typedesigner should have to worry about that, …6 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
The purpose of text is to communicate. Excessive use of colour does not help to get the message across and may fail miserably, just like USING ALL CAPITALS9 -
Re: Units per em
I think most (if not all) of Font Bureau’s RE fonts are on 512 upem, using similar reasoning. I believe that this approach grew out of David Berlow’s experience creating the Prelude fonts for Palm. H…6 -
Re: Home office vs. office
I've been working exclusively from home for over a year now. For many years, I went into an office, but spent a day or two working from home each week. I found it easier to stay focused in the o…9 -
Re: Home office vs. office
I’ve done both over the years. Now that I don’t work on my own anymore I’m happy to have a nice/quiet/nearby office to work at. I often find it easier to switch fully into and out of work mode when t…6
