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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
@"Scott-Martin Kosofsky" : Right, but, for example, VGC and Alphabet Innovations made (manufactured) fonts for headline setting machines, but they never called themselves type founders. My …5 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Sure, but what about the people that made the typefaces/fonts that the typesetters used (e.g., ITC, VGC, etc.)? I'd bet if you perused back issues of U&lc. from the '70s you would only find the t…3 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
It's interesting, I'm pretty sure that nobody in the phototype/cold type days called themselves a foundry. My recollection is that use of the word in relation to making type seemed to fade away with …6 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
I don't mind digital type people using the word foundry, although it seems a little pretentious. Language evolves. Words get their meaning from how people see fit to use them, not from the dictionary…6 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
I would consider use of the florin for f-stop to be a hack. It's just an italic f, but the italic f in most fonts doesn't look the way people thought it should for this particular use. Instead of swi…6
