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Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
The 1912 ATF specimen book has a 30 point X. Like the 18 point version you show, it fails to compensate for the optical illusion that the thin diagonal crossing over is offset inwards. Drop me an ema…1 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
As I said in the original post, Adobe is not ending support in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader and Adobe Sign. And I just remembered a blog post I made on behalf of Adobe in 2005, talking about phasing out T…5 -
Re: Oldstyle numbers by default?
If you want the oldstyle numerals to be the default, the suggestion from C & C is the way to do it. You can still have every feature do the same things they do today — and you should still includ…1 -
Re: Made my first Letter ever! Feedback is appreciated
Nice start! Congrats. The topmost point of the arch curve, both the inner and outer contour, are a bit too far to the right and feel like they have just the slightest bit of a kink in the curve. The …1 -
Re: "Cursive" italic forms
There may well have been other typewriter script fonts before IBM’s Script 12 Pitch, but IBM’s is older than one might think. I think it was either introduced with the Selectric in July 1961, or quit…2
