Book and Regular – who started?
Matthijs Sluiter
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When did the habit/feature com about of having both Book and Regular in a typeface?
And if anyone knows, was this around the same time for Sans and Serif?
And if anyone knows, was this around the same time for Sans and Serif?
Was this introduced by multiple foundries?
So many questions.
So many questions.
Today I thought I knew something about this subject, but on second thought I have no clue what my assumptions are based on.
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AFAIK, it is still quite rare. I would be interested to know if it is more common than I realize. Are there more than a dozen typefaces that include both weights?0
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And (from that thread) the short answer to my comment: perhaps relatively rare among major vendors in the past century... except for ITC.0
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Thanks so much! I will dig into the post you suggested, Nick. Also, I retrieved a different discussion on the subject, started by Alphabettes. Blog post by Robin Mientjes, and a complementary Twitter poll with answers directing all over the place.0
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