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Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
It depends what one considers “essence”. “Eau” is focused on skeletal form, but stress, contrast and serif style are equally significant markers of “Garamond”. I designed the monoline Bodoni Egyptian…1 -
Re: Help me pick the /n/
It’s a good idea to consider the awkward character sequences in which ‘n’ is second—in the word “kern”, for instance, and when preceded by v, y or w. Also sequences such as “ini”, in which presumably…2 -
Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
ITC Legacy is pretty hard to top, for an Incunabula-channeling sans, IMO. ** Christian, why not get a bank loan, and retail the typeface? You could make a lot more than Google pays, in the long run.4 -
Re: Experimental symmetrical typeface
That name is taken. http://namecheck.fontdata.com/?q=artefact2 -
Re: Should we tell Adobe how bad the Illustrator UI is for drawing with beziers?
I abandoned Illustrator 25 years ago, when it became bloated with featuritis. Till that time, it was great, but afterwards geared towards fancy effects, not basic drawing, which paradoxically became …2
