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Re: Transforming Typeface Design: Moving Beyond Gutenberg and Roman Traditions
It may well be true that designing typefaces with a mindset keyed to Roman characters and mediaeval penmanship limits their applicability to new media in the digital age. But I was amused when I read…2 -
Re: Why so many coding typefaces with large x-height?
Text editors that only use fixed-width typefaces, because they're intended for editing computer programs, rarely offer their users the option of turning advanced OpenType features on and off. So…3 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
I haven't been able to locate the descending italic capital J on any version of Times. However, you may be thinking of the swash italic lowercase Z, absent from Times 327 from Monotype, but fou…1 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
Well, there you are, then. If letters weren't immediately recognizable, a typeface would be far less readable.Of course, there are some display typefaces of which this is not true.1 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
I am puzzled by this statement, just as Thomas Phinney is, but I don't know if it is for the same reason.Obviously, if you are acting as a reseller of Monotype-owned fonts, you would need to do…1
