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Re: Hellbox: live font proofing for Mac
And "Hellbox" is a very long-time name in metal type setting for the bin that bad lead type was thrown in and ready to be melted down and reused to cast type. And yes, @Thomas, I (in the 19…4 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
Kent, I remember (in the 1960s) hand-setting ATF Baskerville italic with similar overhangs that you show.1 -
Re: Anyone paint as an outlet?
Being an old fart, I began my visual world with traditional art tools (brush, pencil, charcoal, pen, intaglio scribing tools, calligraphy pens). I feel no need to revisit them now in my eighties. To …2 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
Type design has always been a place for people with design talent, skills, and perseverance enough to carry out a long task. AI seems to be targeted towards someone who wants to circumvent all of tha…5 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
Passed off as Law, is the problem. This implies correctness in perpetuity. With book typography, particularly in the pre-digital eras, you may have had more of a need for expediency of consistency. B…5
