Mark Simonson · Type designer

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  • Re: Experience working a monitor tablet ?

    I have tried using Cintiqs off and on over the years and have not found them to be very useful for vector graphics, which is what most font editors are based on. They do work pretty well for certain …
  • Re: Spacing

    3 is correct. 4 is incorrect. It has arms with serifs. Or maybe serifs with serifs. Serifs are not supposed to have serifs, and I's are not supposed to have arms. You need to resolve the spacing…
  • Re: Spacing

    Those are not serifs, those are arms. The serifs that James is talking about are the little things on the left sides of the E and R. Capital I's do not have arms (although sometimes people add s…
  • Re: Imperial vs Gazette

    I knew someone who worked there in the late seventies when they were starting to phase out metal type. He said they used Linotype machines, but they may well have been Intertype. The matrices were in…
  • Re: Curvature Combs

    I find it can be helpful in finding the inflection point in an s-curve. As a way to gauge the smoothness of a curve, it's kind of like a magnifying glass. It enables you to see things that might…
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