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Re: Sans-Serif For Text
A “sans-serif text face” doesn’t mean much. That’s like saying a leather foot shoe. All alphabetic typefaces are potentially “great for reading”. It’s how they’re chosen and set for a particular docu…0 -
Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
That’s on the way out. Bigger screens, high res and more sophisticated web typographers are making screen typography more like print.2 -
Re: TypeDrawers diversity postmortem postmortem
Cantankerous is an epithet oft applied to old folks, but they also say that one mellows with age. Go figure. I had a lot of nasty bantering with Hrant Papazian on Typophile, but we are quite friendly…3 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
María Ramos said: This applies to all new type technologies. Should we also term all grunge and deconstructed styles as “desktop” typefaces? It’s interesting just how many of the MOMA acquisitions ad…0 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
Strictly speaking, only those typefaces which were used by real typewriters may be considered “typewriter typefaces”. Anything else, especially proportional, is merely faux, pseudo- or allusive. Afte…1
