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Re: What is a font for most people and just about the type industry of this time.
The best reference I came across for the Cyrillic of my Scotch Modern restoration was the 1888 specimen of Harkov (Kharkiv) typefounder Adolph Darre. Beautifully sophisticated work.2 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
I’ve been making a decent living from fonts for 20 years, since e-commerce was introduced, in fact. That was something I got into early, and the typefaces I designed then are the ones that keep selli…3 -
Re: Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag
Well sleuthed! It just goes to show that using style to date an artefact is no guarantee of accuracy, as historic genres overlap on the time scale. And that’s without revivals. So, just as today ’90s…2 -
Re: Type design hot takes
It’s likely only problematic for “poly-scriptic” folk such as type designers. I always read the KIΛ logo as KILL, which doesn’t dispose me to travelling in one. There is a coffee shop nearby with the…3 -
Re: Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag
The lettering and layout is fashionably modernist, but when was a top hat a fashion item, and not just for formal occasions? That would be 1930, when Marlene Dietrich wore a tux and top hat in “Moroc…2
