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Re: Metafont – ?
I think the failure of Metafont is that the model it's based on is too simple and not flexible enough for creating (or re-creating) typefaces. It always struck me that Metafont fonts look as if they …3 -
Re: Digital strategy for "luxury" fonts
This reminds me of something House Industries did back around 2000 with their Luxury font collection, which were inspired by high-end brand logos. It's been priced normally since a few years later, b…3 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
One other thing: I was discouraged by my experience in the '90s to even try to pursue doing type design as a career. But when I began to meet people in the early 2000s who were actually doing well in…4 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
FWIW, working with multiple retailers has worked well for me. I decided in the early 2000s to do this after getting burned having a single, exclusive distributor in the '90s. My thinking at the time …8 -
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
