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Re: Reviving Type
Interesting. This is such a rich field, practically and philosophically. I’ve steered clear of doing revivals, although I have done a couple of restorations (Scotch Modern and Dair/Cartier), in which…2 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
Here is a short essay I wrote on this topic, at Quora.2 -
Re: Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals
Letter-cutter Richard Austin, in his type specimen, c.1810: [Harder metal, blacker ink, smoother paper (calendered, i.e. pressed)—informing the work of Baskerville somewhat earlier, as well as the th…1 -
Re: Documentation to include with fonts
I used to include a specimen PDF in the packages, but now those are downloadable separately from my distributors.1 -
Re: Combining marks advance width
I advise against making /i by combining dotlessi with dotaccent. Same thing for /j. I did that in a typeface, and discovered that there are some layout applications which don’t render it correctly (e…2
