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Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
That's from the book Frederic Goudy, by D.J.R. Bruckner (1990), p. 122. There are no other samples. The only other mention of the face in the book is on page 45: Here's a 1200 dpi scan with the backg…2 -
Re: Do typedesigners with bad handwriting exist?
That may be to do with the way handwriting is taught in The Netherlands. In the US, when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, a cursive style, descended from the Palmer hand and the like, was tau…1 -
Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
I used to design audiobook packages, so I used that all the time. We called it "P in a circle". :smile: I made a special font that had it since almost no fonts included them in the '90s.3 -
Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
My approach is to keep them clear and simple, but harmonious to the style of the font. I usually do the ® as a superscript since, like ™, it's almost always used this way. True, you can always apply …8 -
Re: What is the proper name to each Weight? What's for CSS 550?
It's sort of a fools errand to try to rationalize weight names. The only real solution is to forget names and just use numbers, as Frutiger did with Univers. In practice, this did not catch on simply…8
