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Re: Announcing protoType – a curated competition & exhibition
More links please, I’d like to see all selections. (Having missed TypeCon.) Here’s mine: http://shinntype.com/typefaces/neology/5 -
Re: What is a newspaper typeface?
An Anglocentric view: The (Scotch) Modern is the archetype, as this was the body text style used by the first significantly mass-circulation newspapers in the UK in the mid 19th century, notably Lloy…6 -
Re: The future of type
I’ve been exploring the possibilities of alternates and contextuality within OpenType for a while now, and there’s a lot of neat stuff that can be done, but it is starting to feel a bit bogus—if all …2 -
Re: What is a newspaper typeface?
Indeed, short descenders are advisable for body text. Both because narrow columns of auto-justified text (and in newspapers body text is almost always justified) can easily create rivers and islands …2 -
Re: The future of type
I predict that fonts will migrate to become part of layout applications, as parametric (metafont) entities. Eventually. This will shift the focus of interest in typography further away from the reduc…3
