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Blackletter numerals
I've never had much of an interest in blackletter types until I came across one from ca. 1860-80 recently. I took a liking to it and researching it led me to a discovery which I cannot find an answer…2 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
Bigelow & Holmes has an interesting page about weight naming, here: https://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2015/07/on-font-weight.html3 -
Re: Glyphr - a new and free font editor
I disagree with that assessment; Glyphs was first announced in 2009: "Flexible font editor by Berlin-based Georg Seifert, announced at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City."* and by 2013 many people w…2 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
In the case of Futura Book, when Monotype made their version (the Twentieth Century family) they named the book weight Twentieth Century Semi-Medium*. It fell between Futura Light and Medium so that …3 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
None that I know of. Generally a book weight is thought of as being especially useful in long text matter. It is not a problem for it to fall between Light and Regular; it really is the designer's ch…2
