Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: "Dawson Grotesque" Please critique

    Don’t listen to the voice of reason, follow your heart. Stick with your naive, unorthodox mix of letter forms and try to train them into working as a team. It may take longer to achieve good typograp…
  • Re: The Humpty A

    I would say no, based on Parachute’s Bague Round. Panos Vassiliou breaks a lot of the “proper” conventions in his designs, but not here.
  • Re: Apostrophe word list

    Nonetheless, he does point out the major fail of “smart quote” apps that has entrenched <quoteleft> as the usage for an eliding (abbreviating) apostrophe at the beginning of words and numbers. …
  • Re: Call for papers

    It’s quite humbling (for someone whose career spans the transition from analog to digital media) that the connectedness of content and visual form, in print, has become the novelty, worthy of mention…
  • Re: Oldstyle currencies?

    I include them in <c2sc>. The only characters I put in <smcp> are lower case letters. I’m quite partial to the fully extended, “thorny” sterling, cf Baskerville—how British is that?!—; he…
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