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Re: What is a newspaper typeface?
Press gain is not so much of an issue with oldstyle or transitional faces. The problem for newspapers was the predominance of didones, and crude printing, but that is history now. My strategy for the…1 -
Re: MyFonts and families
Corel users weren’t the professional graphic designers who constituted the market for quality fonts at that time. Here are the freebies which were bundled with Illustrator in 1993. Perhaps it was a r…4 -
Re: Stroked vectors in FontLab Studio 6
I use FontLab’s <Make Parallel Path> tool.I find it works fine, much better than <Expand Path>.5 -
Re: Oblique and Italic in same family
I would go with the sub-family. So many otherwise excellent typographers don’t even know that Stylistic Sets exist. But you can still include the Obliques as a Stylistic Set in the Italics (and vice …3 -
Re: An interesting logotype
Perhaps it was the trend towards single spaces between sentences. If people were used to two spaces, a sentence ending in <period-doublequote-space> followed by capital T, V, Y or W would put t…1
