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Re: What are 'true italics'?
Can't speak for other designers, Ray, but I did a squarish modular technical sans (Center) and found almost every optical correction I tried made the italic look worse. In the end, the italic I …3 -
Re: Using literature in a type specimen
Can't beat Jules Verne.1 -
Re: Coming from where, at what age?
BTW, it wasn't quite as from-scratch as all that. Goudy drew alphabets as a child, published his first typeface and set up his first private press before he was 30, and worked as a freelance des…2 -
Re: MyFonts and families
Sure, but I wasn't talking about 90% discounts or massive grab-bag bundles. Those are obviously pernicious. I was talking about gradual long-term shifts in the 'normal' undiscounted pr…3 -
Re: Merchant of Alphabets
Speaking as a writer who's dealt with more than one major US publisher, I would not bet the farm on their consistency or attention to detail. Or on their giving a toss about books that aren'…1
