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Re: Dry Transfer Lettering — Germany — perhaps circa 1970 ?
Letraset was big in the German-speaking world, and Mecanorma had offices in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, too. While I can’t rule out that Formatt, Prestype, Chartpak etc. distributed their prod…3 -
Re: The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
Another contemporary typeface with this feature is Salamandre by Franck Jalleau.2 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
For such historical examples, keep in mind that Book here originally designated not only a weight, but also a specific range of sizes (with respective proportions and spacing). While Futura mager and…9 -
Re: Question: Why are foot serifs cupped?
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Re: Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
The problem with such maps is that they are simplistic. It’s correct that „…“ is the standard form of quotation marks in Germany – in office context and also in many newspapers. As soon as you start …7
