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Re: To become a type designer?
If you want to learn the craft, I strongly advise you to start with a simple, basic style of type, whether serif or sans or calligraphic, and make it well-balanced, readable, and clear. It's not easy…5 -
Re: Quality; or, What Makes a Font Great?
What Nina said. Students always have some brilliant idea for a breathtakingly original typeface, and they're always enthusiastic about these ideas. They're generally less enthusiastic about the hard …3 -
Re: Lowercase Hashtag?
Well, I use # to refer to the basis weight of paper stocks all the time when I'm talking to printers. And as Jack and Mark say, I want people to be able to use an octothorpe as a number sign as well…1 -
Re: Lowercase Hashtag?
If the face has oldstyle figures, I include hashtags, percents, perthousands, and currency symbols to match. But these don't match lc x-height; they match whatever x-height the oldstyle figures have.2 -
Re: Typeface to accompany Canada 150 logo
No. This is not a neighborhood birthday party where the folks next door bring Rice Krispie squares and the snooty patisserie-owners say, "Ew, how common." This is a $200 million extravaganz…5
