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Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
Something to keep in mind is that while there are about half a million graphic designers worldwide, the number of people who earn money doing type design is probably around 5,000, and only a fraction…6 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Interesting example, Nick. The italic tabular figures match the width of the roman figures, but they didn't align the decimal points or display the same number of digits after the decimal. Weird.1 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Not changing the /a and /g in the italic was the usual practice with sans serif italics until the last twenty or thirty years. There are examples of serif faces, mostly around 1900, that did this, su…2 -
Re: The LeMo Method
@"John Savard" said, Nothing to do with improvements in mice. Type designers have adapted to building outlines with Bézier tools. It's not the same as drawing with a pencil or pen, even tho…2 -
Re: Adam Savage from Mythbusters on fonts.
The presentation given by Underware at ATypI last week of their new handwriting font, Scribo, also presented a variable font technique they have been working on to simulate animated handwriting with …3
