Mark Simonson · Type designer

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Admin James Puckett
  • Re: Organization

    I keep each font/font family in its own folder. Within that folder, I have a folder for banners and other images needed by distributors and for my own site. I have a master Adobe Illustrator file tha…
  • Re: When did the "Serif vs. Sans" derby started?

    The original Mac system included a serifed font, New York. It was the default in many of the included apps, such as Note Pad, MacWrite, even the Calculator. It was kind of a low-res bitmapped interpr…
  • Re: Scripts needed?

    The same people who do Font Squirrel also do Fontspring, which is their commercial arm. Behind the scenes it uses the same webfont generator as Font Squirrel. Font Squirrel can also be used to genera…
  • Re: Why FontCreator hardly used by professionals?

    Strictly speaking, quadratic Bézier curves only have one off-curve point. But with TrueType curves, you can specify more than one because the interpreter is able to reconstruct the missing on-curve p…
  • Re: Graphology

    Well, the techniques by which we create those curves depend on reason. Reason and emotion go hand in hand. It's what I like about type design. There was a study a few years ago that looked at people …
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