Florian Hardwig · Typographer, editor, researcher, author

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• Re: Best practices for multi-script families

  Florian Hardwig

  March 27
  There’s also the commercial perspective, of course. Nick already hinted at some aspects. Also, if you bundle everything in one font, then your pricing might be prohibitive for those licensees who onl…
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• Re: The Script Style of House Numbers

  Florian Hardwig

  March 16
  Don’t have time to watch the video right now, so apologies if I’m repeating things you already know. But here’s a 2018 tweet by Tobias Frere-Jones, showing such numerals in a c.1929 catalog by H W Kn…
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• Re: AI.com was reportedly sold for 70 million USD.

  Florian Hardwig

  February 13
  If you were thinking about Peter Fraterdeus’s label, that was Alphabets, Inc. – with an AI prefix for typeface names. His domain name wasn’t half bad either. In fact, much better: alphabets.com. Now …
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• Re: Font Data: Name Check site down?

  Florian Hardwig

  December 2025
  Font Data is a project by Lars Schwarz. I’ve alerted him via his typo.social account at Mastodon. Related (from the Name Check page):
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• Re: Examples of Greek capital ου ligature wanted

  Florian Hardwig

  October 2025
  Two more street signs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/albert-jan_pool/14748196897/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/hansdelaat/11089894823/
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