John Savard

  • Re: MyFonts pangrams gone?

    I have a website too, but it isn't nearly as helpful to people here as his. But I've recently added a page - to which the link points - about fonts. Naturally, the experts here will find much to lam…
  • Re: Fonts in the Wild

    In order to plug that leak, they would have to stop using web fonts. Thus, presumably, their servers would now generate .jpg files when you asked to see pangrams instead of AaBbCc... of the font sam…
  • Re: Never Mind Starling

    I see that it was Mike Parker who, at Font Bureau, drew the version of Starling that is on sale, so I don't know how I could have made this mistake.
  • Never Mind Starling

    I was looking at a digital copy of the 1908 Stephenson Blake specimen book in its Canadian edition. Their Lining Old Style No. 5 looked... rather familiar. Maybe there are aspects in which it is grea…
  • Re: Working title "Exactica"

    Personally, in line with Ray Larabie's comment, I thought that unlike the X, the original K and the R weren't broken, and so "fixing" them led to the typeface no longer embodying its ration…
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