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Designer style
Eric Gill, photographed by Howard Coster, Penrose Annual, 1937.1 -
Re: The (real) size of a typeface
I noticed something like that when I designed Beaufort. The sharply pointed glyphic serifs remain sharp at any size, this being a quality of vector-based digital fonts. On another tack, I would say t…5 -
Re: Just how am I supposed to browse for new fonts?
At the front end: Fontlab has had a number of standard character/glyph sets for a while, listed as “Default Encoding”. But I must admit, although I may start a typeface with one of these, I usually f…1 -
Re: What is a font for most people and just about the type industry of this time.
The best reference I came across for the Cyrillic of my Scotch Modern restoration was the 1888 specimen of Harkov (Kharkiv) typefounder Adolph Darre. Beautifully sophisticated work.2 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
I’ve been making a decent living from fonts for 20 years, since e-commerce was introduced, in fact. That was something I got into early, and the typefaces I designed then are the ones that keep selli…3
