John Savard

  • Re: What are 'true italics'?

    While I've noted myself that the usual practice with italic versions of sans-serif typefaces is for them to be slanted versions of the normal version, some of the comments here on this issue have ins…
  • Re: Playboy

    Certainly looks like Goudy Old Style to me at first glance. But I thought most advertising was typeset by the ad agency, and was sent to publications in image form, since one might see exactly the sa…
  • Re: Does that “y” exist?

    Clearly I'm no professional type designer. The only thing I could see (apparently) wrong with the typeface sample that began this thread was that the capital Y should have had a shallower V-part and …
  • Re: Aspects of quality for a typeface

    This reminds me of the famous quotation: "If there were an individual, readily recognized quality or characteristic which the type designer could incorporate in drawings that would make any one …
  • Re: Brain Sees Words As Pictures

    For myself, the first thing I think of is that in Cgiarbmde, the "g" has become a hard g, while in Cmarbidge, the sounds stay the same, but are re-ordered. The idea that it is all interrel…
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