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

Llyr Attala Posts: 2

February 2014 in Type Design Technique & Theory

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!

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• font making
• font design

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  James Puckett Posts: 2,051

  February 2014

  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.

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  Nick Shinn Posts: 2,361

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Over 150 years:
  
  
  Love that phrase: “…mere effigies of letters.”

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  Dave Crossland Posts: 1,554

  February 2014

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

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  Nick Shinn Posts: 2,361

  February 2014

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

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  Chris Lozos Posts: 1,492

  February 2014

  Damn, Typophile was really good back then!

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