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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 …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 …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 dicti…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. Inst…6 -
Re: Units per em
The 18 unit em John mentions is from the metal type days, and it was strictly to do with the widths of the characters. The shapes of the characters were not constrained by any sort of unit grid the w…10
