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Re: Grotesk / Grotesque
I've long had the impression (although I don't know for sure if it's true) that late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century German type designers favored the one-story /g (and sometimes /a) due to th…4 -
Re: Grotesk / Grotesque
There are a few exceptions, but usually German Grotesk faces feature a single-story /g, British Grotesque faces feature a double-story /g.2 -
Re: Noveo Sans by Fontsite? (A variation or copy of Neuzit Grotesk)
Found the book. It's called Digital Type Design Guide: The Page Designer's Guide to Working With Type, published in 1995 by Hayden Books, and sold for $45. The accompanying CD-ROM (containing 220 fon…1 -
Re: The future of type
Letterror created a font in 2003 that changed its appearance based on weather conditions: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/is-it-about-to-rain-check-the-typeface.html2 -
Re: The future of type
It may be splitting hairs to say this, but creating a typeface in a modern font editor (going back to Fontographer and probably earlier) isn't really drawing. Instead, the computer is doing the drawi…3
