John Savard

Actually, that case didn't really settle the mater. I looked it up; it concerned a photograph of Oscar Wilde, and the decision affirmed, because the photographer did arrange the lighting and pose th… (View Post)

This is a very common view. And, indeed, it is true of type design as commonly practiced. (The term typography is most commonly used to refer to the use of typefaces in page design and layout, or ty… (View Post)

Except for the third of those, I didn't think I was saying that. It was stylistic consistency between weights that I had been dismissing (at least to the level it seemed to me some comments were con… (View Post)

You are right that the blackest weight is perhaps flawed. Since usually black weights of typefaces have to be redesigned to such an extent that they're really new typefaces, I hadn't taken that into… (View Post)

It's only the versions of i and I that are accented that have this problem. I realize that this may seem like a point that's too obvious for words, but as a native speaker of English, I have to remin… (View Post)