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Is There Such a Thing as a Crystal Goblet?
A famous essay by Beatrice Warde used the metaphor of the ideal wine glass to illustrate the function of typography. She argued that typography should be, effectively, invisible, serving to unobtrusi…1 -
Re: Vietnamese diacritic ascender adjustments
Well, I'm assuming that a font should be designed to work perfectly in the programs that are already existing out there, from WordPad on up. If they don't correctly implement the standard,…0 -
Re: Playing around with Venetians
Not just at the time of Nicholas Jenson. Before 1990 or thereabouts too. For example, it's like a capital I in Garamond. This is a very recent innovation. At least the first time I noticed it w…0 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
The conclusion to be drawn from the situation you cite is obvious. The market for paid fonts will largely evaporate once somebody makes a free clone of either Times, Century Expanded, or Baskerville…1 -
Re: The beginning of the end
I don't see anything in there about a change in the price of the font licenses. I'll grant you that an increase in convenience will make some difference. But compared to a) Google Fonts, an…0
