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Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
It is certainly tempting to think that we aspire to draw the ideal form of every character, specially when it comes to typefaces for running text. So if I am doing a Renaissance typeface, my (never r…1 -
Re: "Modern" a typeface inspired by Bembo, Garamond, Centaur, GFS Didot and Bodoni
Hi Diego. Welcome to the type design world. A very exciting field, as you have experienced already. Certainly I see many things to improve in your work, but everyone starts that way. I certainly did.…2 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
In Spanish, when setting a bibliography, some publishing houses – namely the Fondo de Cultura Económica – uses three emdashes to indicate that the author is the same than in the preceding entry. I gu…1 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
That is Stanley Morison, “First Principles of Typography”, section II. Sadly, I don’t have the English quote at hand, but only the Spanish translation: “El buen creador de tipos se da cuenta de que, …1 -
Re: What do you think about Fontself as of today in 2023?
Hi. I am a Glyphs user approximately since 2016 but one year ago, when I was looking for a type design software for my Domestika course (sorry for the self-promotion!), I decided to use Fontself beca…4
