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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 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
The character seems to be missing in the font used on TypeDrawers, so it depends on the fallback font your web browser uses. Looks okay in Safari.1 -
Re: Explanation of the Type Industry.
Well, that's certainly not their aim, which @"James Puckett" was suggesting.1 -
Re: Explanation of the Type Industry.
I would say it is mainly comprised of producers (type designers and foundries, who design and produce the fonts) and distributors (e.g., Monotype, Adobe, ILT, Fontspring, etc.). There is some overlap…4
