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Re: Photo Typeface?
Not all photo-composition was from glyph images on film fonts. The first wave of digital fonts in the 1970s (CRTronic, Digitek, etc.) used various methods to burn glyph shapes onto light-sensitive pa…3 -
Re: Overload by typefaces
There are always emergent possibilities, created by new technology and changing cultural circumstances. And the sheer profusion of people designing type, from all around the world, cultures interacti…2 -
Re: Overload by typefaces
To be specific as to how new technology can create emergent possibilities, consider the pseudo-random effect. First, about 20 years ago, Robert Slimbach, while working at Adobe, was able to utilize h…5 -
Re: "All the old fellows stole our best ideas." Source?
I know it from how he used it as a couple of lines of text, beneath most of the full character showings in a self-penned monograph The Typophiles Chap Books XIII and XIV, A Half-Century of Type Desig…4 -
Re: italic ӕ in neogrotesque
It might help to consider the question as one of definitions. “Neo-grotesque” describes either: • An historical genre of mid-century modern typefaces such as Helvetica and Folio • Any new type design…3
