Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: Richard: A Dutch text face

    Where one draws the line between what is original and what is an altered copy is arbitrary. Where one draws either of the lines is a matter of taste Are you suggesting that taste is arbitrary? Or jus…
  • Re: Richard: A Dutch text face

    Right James, if you’re going to publish a generic sans in this day and age then the quality (whatever that means) of the design is not enough to stand out from the crowd—it needs to have:Big family o…
  • Re: R.I.P.

    Don’t write off the appendix just yet—there are several theories as to its usefulness, even if these are secondary to its original function. For a typographic analogy, consider the @ symbol and #. A …
  • Re: R.I.P.

    Greenlandic K. All the boxes and arrows in WGL4. *** The danger of omitting such unnecessary characters is that some bright spark writing a layout app (or font manager) might decides that fonts won’t…
  • Re: Tabular figs in bold+ weights

    I usually try to equalize tab figure width across as many weights as possible, certainly the mid-range which might be used for body text—the classic example being financials in annual reports. But fo…
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