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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
There is something rootless about digital culture, so we need a little high touch to offset the high tech, and foundry connects us with our storied past. So much emphasis on distressed and script typ…5 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Soft Hyphen = Discretionary Hyphen. In InDesign: <Type> <Insert Special Character> <Hyphens> <Discretionary Hyphen> When you insert it in a word, it looks like nothing happens…2 -
Re: How to make a font in 9 hours
I don’t really keep track of how long particular glyphs take to design and draw, but I do recall that each of these took what seemed like a whole day. The manicule was the result of a lot of research…2 -
Re: What is a newspaper typeface?
Press gain is not so much of an issue with oldstyle or transitional faces. The problem for newspapers was the predominance of didones, and crude printing, but that is history now. My strategy for the…1 -
Re: MyFonts and families
Corel users weren’t the professional graphic designers who constituted the market for quality fonts at that time. Here are the freebies which were bundled with Illustrator in 1993. Perhaps it was a r…4
