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Re: The vinyl records of font formats
While high-end audio is not really on-topic here, some comment is required. CD certainly has a much lower noise floor level than vinyl. It is better in a number of obvious ways. However, sound repro…1 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
If color is the "new italic", or the "new bold", then it will be up to the user to decide when letters change color, just as it is up to the user to decide what words are to be se…2 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
This discussion has reminded me of an important difference between the kind of font one would order from ATF or Kelsey and a TrueType font file. If one wanted to typeset an entire book, a single 20-a…3 -
Re: "W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design"
Caledonia is a very popular typeface; one very tiny footnote to the career of W. A. Dwiggins that few people know is this: the symbols "dek" and "el", used for a while by the Duod…3 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Having owned a manual typewriter which had a cloth ribbon that was red across half its width, so that one could print words in red for emphasis, the idea of color being "the new italic" is …4
