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Re: Authentic naive 17th century “grotesque” or postwar power tool disimprovement?
The main thing is, the original lettering would have had the “V” cut characteristic of chiseling. When traced over with some sort of power tool, it loses that and becomes just rounded. I assume one c…3 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
Note that there is a Panose setting for monospaced. You should only use it if your font is truly monospaced all the time, though! MS Word at least used to apply a single advance width to all glyphs, …3 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
You could use the cap eszett form. But should you? I would love to hear from native German designers about this option. On the one hand, I think it will look a zillion times better. On the other hand…1 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
So, Laatz sued Zazzle. Zazzle made a counterclaim. Laatz made a motion to dismiss the counterclaim. The court has denied Laatz’ motion to dismiss. This court decision has a several interesting elemen…5 -
Re: DSType selling part of its collection to Monotype
There are some uses of AI in type design that I expect to see sooner than others. One obvious one would be to add specified characters to an existing font. For example, new currency symbols, or diacr…0
