Florian Hardwig · Typographer, editor, researcher, author

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• Re: Terms and Definitions - a Cheat Sheet - Help/Insight

  Florian Hardwig

  October 2022
  I’d say that “terminal” and “finial” are synonyms – for where strokes are terminated or finished – with the former being more common. “Stroke ending” is another, plainer term. The captions suggest th…
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• Re: Resources / specimens for Mongolian script typefaces?

  Florian Hardwig

  October 2022
  Have you been in touch with Jo De Baerdemaeker? He runs a research project titled Mongolian script: from metal type to digital font.
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• Re: Unusual Promotional Use of a Font

  Florian Hardwig

  October 2022
  Champions by Canada Type is a modification of two upright weights from their Davis Sans family (2016).
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• Re: Question about desktop license for Akzidenz-Grotesk BQ Medium

  Florian Hardwig

  August 2022
  Agreed. There are some differences when it comes to things like style range, language support, design of special characters, etc., but these should be inconsequential for the OP. Today I learned that…
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• Re: Sans serif display fonts theory

  Florian Hardwig

  August 2022
  Tim and Shoko’s seminal book on the subject, Size-Specific Adjustments to Type Designs, includes various examples for sans serifs with optical sizes. One series of note that was released after the bo…
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