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Re: Average number of type designers in a type design group.
Regarding general history, Fontshop was huge in nurturing indie designers like me prior to the internet era, and once the web took off, Typophile and Typecon were huge in enabling me to learn and net…2 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
Just re-read an article, Real Big Thing, I wrote in 2002 about OpenType. Apart from a few statements that now appear rather embarrassing, I’m reminded that a big impetus to the development of OpenTyp…1 -
Re: Adrian Frutiger (24 May 1928 – 12 September 2015)
Not as strong a meme as Zapf’s passing; pipped at the post, so to speak. But his work is more prevalent today, what with the Frutiger face becoming a genre, which is quite something. It always amazes…1 -
Re: Noticeably Absent from TypeCon
Thanks for the kind mention, James. It takes me a lot of time to put together a talk, and I can only really justify that by using each as an opportunity to investigate in depth a topic that interests…1 -
Re: 25 Systems for Classifying Typography: A Study in Naming Frequency
I classify type designs by date, location, foundry and designer.1
