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Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
I’m not sure how regulation could practically be applied here. Monotype is fairly transparent with their PE-backed leadership, but they have still acquired lots of IP from willing sellers. It’s unfo…12 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
What do you mean by “other companies will have to be more open”? You mean other distributors will need to be more permissive in who they accept?1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Personally, I would like to hear people refer to “open source fonts” more often than “Google Fonts”. To be clear, there are plenty of topics and ideas in which Google Fonts is relevant (its influence…7 -
Re: Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
For our midcentury house with a midcentury mailbox, I really didn’t want to choose any of the usual typefaces, so I picked Gimlet. (This was a custom transfer sticker I created and ordered from Stick…2 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
I was going to write something similar; thanks for saving me the effort! As interested as I was in type design when I started out (mid-90s, same as John), I quickly found that there was a pervasive …1
