Florian Hardwig · Typographer, editor, researcher, author

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• Re: Naming font styles in various languages

  Florian Hardwig

  April 2015
  As long as it is about clearly defined terms such as small caps, this can be useful. For more ambiguous things such as weights, I’m skeptical. Font makers can’t agree whether Thin is lighter than Ext…
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• Re: This is not good

  Florian Hardwig

  March 2015
  But it was quite cool when it was new, no? See L’écrivain (“The Writer”), one of the four automata by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, created in 1774. https://youtu.be/bY_wfKVjuJM https://youtu.be/ux2KW20nqHU
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• Re: What is your standard Latin character set?

  Florian Hardwig

  March 2015
  Also keep in mind that Vietnamese is not restricted to Vietnam (This goes for all languages, to various degrees.) According to this source based on the US Census, there were almost 1.5 million Vietna…
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• Re: Options for new type designers?

  Florian Hardwig

  July 2014
  No. “We pay you 50% of what the customer pays.” — MyFonts It used to be 65% several years ago, though, see this thread on Typophile.
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• Re: Lydian Displace-d on MyFonts

  Florian Hardwig

  March 2013
  More amusing than shocking is the fact that MT sells a face named Lisbon, but doesn’t know who “designed” it: http://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/lisbon
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