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Re: Diaeresis/umlaut height
Type designers have to make up our own minds. These subtleties are imperceptible to the end reader, even those of Caflisch Script. The people who care are art directors, graphic designers and typogra…2 -
Re: Book and Regular – who started?
Google “Typedrawers Book Regular”: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3349/book-regular-medium/p32 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Well Abi, as we’re talking about Goudy, he is well known as a late starter and was still breaking new ground in his ’40s and beyond—he was 46 when his first “signature” style, Kennerley, was publishe…4 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
It’s not very difficult, when writing Roman script in a slow and deliberate manner, with a broad-nib pen, to adjust the angle of the nib (stress) to “tweak” for a more even or meaningful effect, as o…6 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
And continuing further from the OP… Stellar (1929) was available from the Ludlow foundry in Regular and Bold, from 8 pt. to 72 pt., according to Vincent Steer’s Printing Design and Layout, 1945, Lond…2
