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Re: Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book
Jeremey Tankard is a contemporary type designer who has shown a particular interest in unicase design. Disturbance and the Shire types, for instance. I’ve done one myself (Panoptica/Parity). And Crai…2 -
Re: Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book
As the proposal was first published in Westvaco Inspirations for Printers, they could find the appropriate issue, scan that, and credit the publisher.3 -
Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
Copying an old printed text sample, revival or restoration, needs to take account of the two media it bridges. —Stanley Morison, A Tally of Types The gulf between metal and digital typography cannot …7 -
Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
I think it’s best to work out basic criteria for yourself, in two ways. Firstly, by examining how others have done it, by opening up their fonts and seeing if there are any general principles that em…2 -
Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
@"mauro sacchetto" However, several classic serif faces have notably wider sidebearings on /I. Standardization may seem like a good idea, but I have to wonder whether this “cut and paste” e…4
