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Re: Photo Typeface?
Today, the design and production phases of any project overlap to the point where there's hardly a distinction. I've always missed the paste-up and mechanical-building parts of the job — the tools, …3 -
Re: Photo Typeface?
We would use a stat camera at the newspaper where I worked to enlarge type for big feature story headlines. I don't remember ever copying letters out of a specimen book. Instead, we typically enlarge…1 -
Re: Photo Typeface?
I'm late to the discussion, but it caught my eye. I started in the late '70s in the middle of that era, but I don't remember hearing designers using the term phototype. I'm not sure many of us thoug…1 -
Re: Variable fonts
Type design is something of a side thing for me. I'm mostly an art director/graphic designer. Most designers I know have heard about variable fonts but don't know that much about them. Only recently …5 -
Re: Some interesting magazine typography from 1988 .
I have a full collection of Herb Lubalin's Avant Garde magazines from the late '60s and early '70s. Avant Garde with all its unusual ligatures is used throughout them. For example, the cover of the p…3
