Florian Hardwig · Typographer, editor, researcher, author

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• Re: Super Grotesk scans

  Florian Hardwig

  February 2016
  Hi Thierry, I could offer a plain glyph set if that is enough for your purposes. For images from a proper specimen, ask Jan Middendorp – he posted some scans to Flickr once. Alternatively, ask Ralf H…
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• Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?

  Florian Hardwig

  February 2016
  Vietnamese ≠ Vietnam. To quote myself from a previous thread:
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• Re: Ornaments and Unicode

  Florian Hardwig

  October 2015
  Frequent users of arrows and other characters that are hard to input via the keyboard should better set up such shortcuts as text replacements, be it via the System Preferences in OS X (Keyboard → Te…
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• Re: Condensed Typography

  Florian Hardwig

  August 2015
  Being a primer, it doesn’t go too deep into this topic, but Jan Middendorp’s Shaping Text, to which I had the honor to contribute, has half a page about condensed type. The page is included in a (low…
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• Re: Proper way of designing the “@” symbol

  Florian Hardwig

  May 2015
  The at symbol is mainly used within lowercase, so it should be designed to look good in this context. Quite a few fonts have an alternate for all-caps settings. Aktiv Grotesk is one of them, see the …
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