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Re: Why are inflections bad?
This reminds me of something. The interior of a violin has a simple curved shape, but on the outside, there are four corners where triangular wood blocks are put to brace the ribs precisely where the…3 -
Re: Grazhdanskiy Shrift
Well, perhaps this first draft of the typeface will enable him to determine which of those choices would be more faithful to the original that is being copied. Perhaps finding more print samples at …3 -
Re: Table of the Evolution of English Language
Yes, think of all the unfortunate Linotype machine operators this heartless decision has put out of work! Oh, wait, they also "applied the new text design", so they actually did typeset mo…1 -
Re: Duospace. Wait, what? Duospace?
I don't recall encountering anything duospaced before. But the mechanical Vari-Typer only provided characters with widths of 2, 3, and 4 units, and there was a manual typewriter with proportiona…1 -
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
