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Re: The future of type
Letterror created a font in 2003 that changed its appearance based on weather conditions: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/is-it-about-to-rain-check-the-typeface.html2 -
Re: The future of type
It may be splitting hairs to say this, but creating a typeface in a modern font editor (going back to Fontographer and probably earlier) isn't really drawing. Instead, the computer is doing the drawi…3 -
The future of type
Like many of you here, I imagine, I think a lot about the historical development of type in terms of its forms and how it is made. Metal type reigned for about 520 years, produced by hand for the fir…12 -
Re: Type design hot takes
A good well-done example using halftones is Art of the Printed Book, 1455-1955, published by Godine. It's printed in rotogravure duotones, so the halftone screen is virtually invisible. Unfortunately…2 -
Re: Noveo Sans by Fontsite? (A variation or copy of Neuzit Grotesk)
The article on Luc Devroye's site about SoftMaker mentions that their font data was licensed from URW. URW was the source for many digital fonts in the '80s and '90s and, like so many other digital t…2
