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Re: What is the proper name to each Weight? What's for CSS 550?
It's sort of a fools errand to try to rationalize weight names. The only real solution is to forget names and just use numbers, as Frutiger did with Univers. In practice, this did not catch on s…8 -
Re: What does the OpenType font "Open" mean?
It basically means that the format is open in the sense of "not proprietary."1 -
Re: Angled quotesingle and quotedbl
As @"John Hudson" said, it goes back to the typewriter. But the link between typewriters and modern computers is the teletype keyboard, which led to typewriter quotes becoming part of ASCII.2 -
Re: Looking for a freelance font designer
It is, but not all the users are.3 -
Re: Naming typefaces... personal preferences?
I try to avoid common words. Invented or rare words are better. The existence of internet search has influence my opinions on this. Shorter is better, especially when a family has lots of styles, bec…9
