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Re: Book, Regular, Medium
If you missed the post (above) with the link to my short Quora essay, here is the text: “Book” was traditionally (in metal) an exceedingly rare style designation. I was only ever aware of it as refer…4 -
Re: Will digital fonts ever enter the retro fashion cycle?
(First off, Industria was a pre-digital design.) I would expect some smart alec irony first—a vogue for horizontally scaled distortion and faux bolding, Papyrus and Comic Sans shedding scorn. When yo…2 -
Re: The selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
In sans serif designs, I often add positive kerning to the sequence r_t. Anybody else do this? I doubt it’s really necessary, as typefaces such as Helvetica and Frutiger have been creating virtual li…3 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
If this were Facebook, the challenge would be to post one’s “top ten” list.2 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
In conceptual art, the idea is more important than the execution. Applying the same distinction to fonts may not work quite so well, but at least, if the basic idea of the font, its sine qua non, can…2
