Hello!
My name is Reese Lee and I'm new here. I’m a graphic designer from the Canadian prairies who picked up type design as a hobby after falling in love with typography in college. I launched my humble business Tofu Type Foundry back in May as a final assignment before graduating.
While teaching myself type design I stumbled across numerous TD forums and am very grateful for all the discussions and explanations publicly documented—especially Christian Thalmann’s long evolution posts which are great for a novice to learn from. You’ve all cultivated a great centre for learning and community, and I look forward to sharing my own work now too!
PS: My apologies for not using a real name. I only read about that after making an account, and my profile doesn’t allow me to edit it for some reason. I also can't select Introductions for the post category. Is this normal?
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I’m not sure what’s going on with introductions; I’ll investigate.
Thanks @Mark Simonson ! I'd like to apologize for using pirated versions of your fonts in high school PowerPoints. My presentations did look amazing because of it though.
@James Hultquist-Todd When I try clicking on that it tells me "You don't have permission to edit your username". It's in a greyed out non-clickable hover state, unlike email and password which I can change.
P.S. your Meet the Team page is pretty funny.
Thanks @Justin Penner! I don't doubt for a second you grew up in Manitoba with that name; there were two Justin Penners in my graduating year haha.
@Vasil Stanev Sorry, I'm not sure what "ugly blue" line you're referring to.
In fact, this is the advice I give to all designers showing alphabet dumps—get real!
(It would have pre-empted the error Christian just noted.)
And after all, this character avoids all contact with mere minuscules!
@Christian Thalmann @Linus Romer @Nick Shinn I'm open to all comments on my work! These are great suggestions and I'm wondering if I should start a new thread to continue this conversation. Plus, then I can add some proper examples like Nick suggested.