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Re: Monotype New Contract ...Subscription Model, do the scary maths.
Monotype is obviously pushing a subscription model to compete with Adobe Fonts, which is similar in the sense that you get access to a large library of fonts when you are a Creative Cloud subscriber.…10 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Spec'ing type to run around an irregular shape (photo, art, whatever)—especially when the text had to fill a certain amount of area—was a dark art. Today, the computer can do it interactively as you …4 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Castcraft was notorious in the sixties and seventies for pirating film fonts for headline setting machines, such as the Typositor. They would acquire a film fonts from franchisees of VGC (who also ma…5 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
The concept of an "ideal" typeface implies that there is only one thing we use typefaces for. The reason there are so many typefaces is because there are so many possible ways that typeface…6 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
I recently bought a copy of the book Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story, by Pamela Pfiffner (2003). It goes into a lot more detail than I've seen before about the relationship between …7
