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Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
I can’t say whether they are “great” or not, but many of my original typeface designs are based on formal design concepts. For instance: Panoptica is “unicase + monowidth” Bodoni Egyptian: historical…4 -
Re: Is this a Gill Sans Variant?
Yes, it’s Monotype’s “infant” Gill, with the single-bowl /a and /g, which found popularity as an adult face in mid-century-modern France and Germany, being slightly more continental and “Futuristic” …9 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
A rhetorical question. Donald Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt, and trust-busting wasn’t on Obama’s radar either.2 -
Re: IJ in a monowidth unicase typeface
It’s enthralling for me as a type designer, like the capital Eszett, even though doing anything other than slapping together the glyphs for I and J makes zero business sense!2 -
Re: German lead type for scholarship
My Scotch Modern could do the first. It has small caps, and size variants, for the footnotes.1
