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Re: Favorite typefaces to study or reference — or consider a model/guide?
When I look at other typefaces as models or guides, it will completely depend on the design I'm working on, and it will be in the context of design questions I'm thinking about to see how others hand…3 -
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
