John Savard

One problem is that the line width is heavier for the capital letters than for the lower-case letters. This is usually considered a flaw. At the moment, this typeface reminds me more of Futura than i… (View Post)

Learning a second language well requires a lot of memorization, and that is something which tends to kill the enthusiasm of children for learning. If children feel more enthusiastic about school, the… (View Post)

It certainly is true, though, that most existing schemes of type classification don't leave room for designs as original as Icone and Avance. Even Optima would cause some trouble. To me, Icone looks … (View Post)


It should be noted that American Type Founders made 3-to-em spaces, 4-to-em spaces, 5-to-em spaces, and so on, that, for some sizes of type, didn't actually go exactly that many to the squar… (View Post)

Ah. This I had not realized. But the first thing I did after reading your post was to find out that it was not he, but rather Carol Twombly, to whom fell the thankless task of designing Adobe Caslon. (View Post)