Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: An interesting logotype

    Ah ha! — I’ve tracked it down, in “Linotype One-Line Specimens”, 1958, New York. I had been expecting to find it under “Logotypes”, not with the punctuation, which is why I missed it at first. 
  • Re: MyFonts and families

    Don’t bet on it. Distress and casual scripts have been popular since emerging in the grungy 1990s. They are the high-touch antidote to soulless high-tech, the vernacular riposte to slick marketing, t…
  • Re: Slashed zero with downstroke?

    Firstly, in all cap setting it’s much too obvious, to the point of appearing to be either a mistake or very precious. But it can be sweet with small caps, pointedly quaint. Secondly, in mixed case se…
  • Re: MyFonts and families

    Shinntype’s best-sellers at MyFonts are Beaufort, Bodoni Egyptian and Brown, all of which were originally published at MyFonts at least 15 years ago, are close to the top of the alphabet menu, and ha…
  • Re: Slashed zero with downstroke?

    No, not like “book”, much worse! Compare <9-letter_o-6> with <9-zero-6>. The fat part of the long strokes of 9 and 6 coincide with where the join is, close to the extremum. And on a purel…
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