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Re: When in the type design process do you start drawing different weights and styles?
If I’m planning to create a typeface family, I’ll usually start thinking about weights early in the design process, when I’m still at the paper sketch stage. Once I start laying down paths in a font …5 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
Demi was short for Demibold. It went out of use after the seventies. It was mostly an ITC thing and never really caught on.2 -
Re: Tagging and cataloging PDF type specimens
I’ve tried using Finder tags to organize scans of sketches, but it got unwieldy very quickly. It seems like Finder tags were only meant for very high-level tagging (e.g., “work,” “personal,” “in prog…1 -
Re: Monotype buys Extensis
Some vendors had already reverse-engineered Type 1 by 1988 or 1989. Bitstream, for example, was shipping unauthorized-by-Adobe Type 1 fonts, which they called “Type A” fonts. I bought some in 1989. A…9 -
Re: What are the most-viewed fonts in the world?
The fonts in this list are fonts served as webfont resources. Fonts like Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Georgia, etc.—in other words, web-safe fonts, the fonts that are commonly included on computers and…2
