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Re: Letterform Innovation?
Rotis (1988) pioneered the concept of a semiserif that sits between a sans and a serif a few years before. Woellmer’s Consul is an example for stylistic sets from 1903. Not necessarily the first of i…6 -
Re: Contextual alternates in latin sans-serif
For more visual examples of one-sided strokes on Ł, see this Flickr thread, including signs, commemorative plaques, shop fronts, handwritten price tags. I wondered whether it’s acceptable for native …2 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
OPTI is a label used by Castcraft (also/previously known as Typefounders of Chicago and Type Films of Chicago) for digital fonts they produced around the early 1990s. My understanding is that virtual…8 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
Even for techniques unrelated to typesetting machines (or body text, for that matter), Times was a standard long before the Mac: Letraset carried Times Bold as early as 1960, as one of their first do…3 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
Mark, thank you for sharing these insights! This sounds like a great book indeed.I once made me a cheat sheet for telling apart Times and Times New Roman (the system versions on Mac OS and MS Windows…2
