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Money for Fonts
A “slide show essay” and retrospective, addressing the evolving context of my 46-year career as a type designer. This 31-page PDF is best viewed in full screen mode, in landscape format on a desktop,…21 -
Re: Tabular punctuation in the font with both Lining and Oldstyle Figures
Why not make both oldstyle and lining tab figures with the same width? Imagine that a typographer has prepared a complex table with oldstyle figures and the client says “Nah, change the figures to li…3 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
One big innovation in the Latin alphabet was the adoption of the single-story ‘g’ as a roman (upright) character. This occurred at first in a few grotesque typefaces in the late 19th century, but bec…3 -
Re: Creative Market: "A new era of font creation"
Unless the names of typefaces such as “Gotham” are prohibited in prompts, the Butterick law suit will be pertinent.2 -
Re: Where to find old fonts?
You are quite right Kris, high res is not necessary, but it doesn’t hurt to see the fine details of historic typography, for educational reasons, and if one is attempting a close facsimile effect—100…1
