John Savard

Originally, when I first heard of web fonts, they only existed in protected forms: the font file was encoded, along with the URL of the site that the font is used on, and the browser would decode the… (View Post)


 Due to the current unfortunate circumstances, the USCF has placed its digital archives of Chess Life, Chess Life & Review, and Chess Review online with free availability. Thus I have be… (View Post)

There is no original for the lower-case v. You get upper-case V but not U, and you get lower-case u but not v. At least in De Aetna itself; Aldus may have used the typeface on books in languages othe… (View Post)

Compatible with the Hammond typewriter, but also able to use proportionally-spaced typestyles, is the Vari-Typer. By now, they've also become antiques instead of junk. It used a four-unit system; bas… (View Post)

IBM made an imitation of Olympia's script typeface for their typebar electric typewriters, they called it Corinthian Script. But nothing resembling the typestyle of their Script elements for the Sele… (View Post)