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Re: Care to share your favourite type specimens?
These days, an online type specimen is a web site. Before that, in print, I was always fascinated by type specimens as literature. In other words, well written. (So, not the kind of foundry where eve…3 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Further to Chris’ and my point, here is a typical type house catalog list from 1959 (Advertisers Composition Company, Los Angeles) when Vignelli was first working in the US. The small quantity of ava…6 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
To put Massimo Vignelli in context, in his day most graphic designers and art directors had access to very few text faces, and these were the classic serif designs, plus Helvetica, Univers and Futura…4 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
For my original retail designs, I do usually start from scratch. However, I find that corporate clients who ask for custom designs generally want something that looks a lot like something else. In th…2 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
Actually, I am the actual type designer, and share the royalties with myself. It would be nice if Google paid royalties, too, as well as fee. While still providing the fonts libre. They could certain…6
