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Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
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Re: Home office vs. office
I was admiring the camera set up at the Letterform Archive, and thinking I'd like to have one of those. Then I realise it was about half the size of my whole office.5 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
I would consider use of the florin for f-stop to be a hack. It's just an italic f, but the italic f in most fonts doesn't look the way people thought it should for this particular use. Inst…6 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
There is something rootless about digital culture, so we need a little high touch to offset the high tech, and foundry connects us with our storied past. So much emphasis on distressed and script typ…5 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Another point: From the era of photocomposition until the advent of PostScript type, when the metal type foundries had folded or were on their last legs, each machine manufacturer made its own fonts,…5 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Three type designers walked into a bar. The first two said, “I must dash,” and left without another word.The third muttered to himself—after a space—“What’s wrong with ’em?”5 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
A short compendium of doppelgängers Pieces of foundry type that did double duty, rotated 180°:• Comma and Left Quote mark• Left and Right Parentheses and Square Brackets• Question/Exclam and Question…6 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
examples of florin variant glyphs after historic manuscripts:11 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
It's interesting, I'm pretty sure that nobody in the phototype/cold type days called themselves a foundry. My recollection is that use of the word in relation to making type seemed to fade …6 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
I don't mind digital type people using the word foundry, although it seems a little pretentious. Language evolves. Words get their meaning from how people see fit to use them, not from the dicti…6
