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Re: Ornaments and Unicode
John Hudson told me I wasn't dumb! My day is improving.1 -
Re: The letter S
Here's my trick for drawing S: draw thousands of really crappy ones over the course of several years. Eventually you'll find that the S's that used to come out lousy—and you had no ide…10 -
Re: Origins of Corporate typefaces
In 1902 he did a headline face for the Pabst brewing comany. In 1921 he did one for Nabisco. In 1929, one for Strathmore. A suite of faces for Saks in 1934. All this is in addition to bespoke headlin…2 -
Re: Accents part of the 2048/1000 limit?
For what it's worth, when I designed Spinoza, I made sure the tallest cap diacritic fit within the em. I thought it was just plain wrong to make a typeface which, set solid, created collisions b…7 -
Re: Kinks, bumps and bad drawings
And after you've drawn a lot of typefaces? You may still find that your first-draft letters are badly drawn. As James says, you need to put this away for a while a come back with fresh eyes. Als…2
