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Re: Weight name conundrum
Layout applications vary how they display the weight names in menus. In InDesign, it is based on the “hundred” numbers, so Heavy, at 750, will show between Bold and Extra Bold. Other applications tha…1 -
Re: Do You Consider Font Licensing Questions an Annoyance?
The licensing side of the font business is a necessary evil for those independents who would rather spend their time designing typefaces than manufacturing and marketing them. The complexity of font …1 -
Re: Type fiction
Starling Burgess, the designer of Times New Roman.3 -
Re: Quality; or, What Makes a Font Great?
@Erik: But wasn’t it De Groot’s first published typeface? Further on Thesis, not to over-emphasize technological determinism (and as I understand it, Thesis exemplifies The Stroke), but didn’t interp…1 -
Re: Quality; or, What Makes a Font Great?
I do realize that the designers involved in the types I mentioned had some (quite handy) technical help, and prior experience in graphic design and lettering. But those were nonetheless first typefac…2
