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Re: Is using diacritics as a design choice in bad taste?
I love that we are so nerdy, agonizing over the political correctness of two small dots. Cold comfort as the world burns.4 -
Re: Flipping alternates
Thanks again Grzegorz, Simon, John, Michael. I’ve actually opted for “none of the above”, and will make two separate fonts, one which starts with roman, the other with italic. The impetus was John’s …2 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
I haven’t signed the new contract, and don’t intend to. It’s sad, as MyFonts enabled my type business in the first place and was its mainstay for many years. But there is no loyalty in big business. …10 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
One measure of the ubiquity of Times: it was the default face of American pulp fiction in the mid-20th century. It could take an absurd amount of abuse and still function, rather like hard-boiled pri…3 -
Re: Just curious... do you enjoy drawing the thin or black masters more?
Black is a horrible chore, when it comes to figure variants and characters such as ampersand and Eszett—and that’s just Latin. A big problem is characters that don’t have a consistent angle of stress…2
