Adapting someone else's typeface design..Revival or Remix

Llyr Attala

Hi there, it would be great to hear some of your opinions on tweaking/sampling/adapting or reviving someone else's typeface design?

Thanks so much for your time!

James Puckett

Is there something in particular that you need to know? Because this horse has been beaten from every possible angle over the last hundred years.

Nick Shinn

Over 150 years:


Love that phrase: “…mere effigies of letters.”

Dave Crossland

Nick!!! OMG that is outstanding!! where is that sourced from?

Nick Shinn

James Mosley posted it in this thread on the origin of Bold: http://www.typophile.com/node/31036

Chris Lozos

Damn, Typophile was really good back then!