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Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
One measure of the ubiquity of Times: it was the default face of American pulp fiction in the mid-20th century. It could take an absurd amount of abuse and still function, rather like hard-boiled pri…3 -
Re: Neutral Typeface Ideas?
Adrian Frutiger’s methodology. And this from Vanity Fair magazine in the 1930s: the photo-composited movie star.3 -
Re: Just curious... do you enjoy drawing the thin or black masters more?
Black is a horrible chore, when it comes to figure variants and characters such as ampersand and Eszett—and that’s just Latin. A big problem is characters that don’t have a consistent angle of stress…2 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
One hears a lot these days about diversity. If there’s one thing I’ve come to realize over the years, it’s that diversity of content (not to mention quantity) is not enough, there has to be diversity…4 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Well I certainly don’t, it’s still mostly good old desktop licences. Do you have statistics to support your belief? And even if I did subsist mostly on web font royalties, would that make it OK for G…7
