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Re: Jan Middendorp has died.
Jan will be put to rest in Leiden, the Netherlands. There will be a memorial service in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany, which was Jan’s home for many years. It will take place on 9 January 2024, 1pm, in t…5 -
Re: Are there any Texas Typographers?
David Nalle died in 2021.3 -
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
