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Re: Buzzfeed UK releases new brand typeface
What James said. Most recent custom American corporate typefaces aren’t really type designs, because they are not based on original ideas; to use a musical analogy, they are performances, restylings …2 -
Re: Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?
For the round characters, perhaps, but I find that the tops of the thick vertical and angled straight stems in the Bold have a lot to say in defining the x-height. Also, the perception of x-height is…1 -
Re: Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?
Not when the serif has much more contrast than the sans. In that scenario, different serif weights are likely to have a consistent x-height. But the sans x-height increases the bolder it gets. That’s…5 -
Re: Font naming - Foundry prefixes
It’s always seemed to me that prefixing a typeface name suggests there are versions by other foundries, alternatives which might be considered. That’s a mindset I’d like to avoid, for various reasons…4 -
Re: Using tablet + stylus for type design
I’ve used a stylus and tablet since 1990, I never touch a mouse or any other cursor control device. I “wrote” Handsome (a “handwritten” script face) with a stylus, using Fontographer’s pen tool, but …1
