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Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
Karen Cheng is wrong to play favourites. If anything, Roman capitals have more even colour, and modern proportions less. In particular, the greater interior space in the wider classically proportione…3 -
Re: Diaeresis/umlaut height
Type designers have to make up our own minds. These subtleties are imperceptible to the end reader, even those of Caflisch Script. The people who care are art directors, graphic designers and typogra…2 -
Re: Book and Regular – who started?
Google “Typedrawers Book Regular”: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3349/book-regular-medium/p32 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Well Abi, as we’re talking about Goudy, he is well known as a late starter and was still breaking new ground in his ’40s and beyond—he was 46 when his first “signature” style, Kennerley, was publishe…4 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
It’s not very difficult, when writing Roman script in a slow and deliberate manner, with a broad-nib pen, to adjust the angle of the nib (stress) to “tweak” for a more even or meaningful effect, as o…6
