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Re: Share your pleasure and learning experience at drawing revivals
I prefer to do original work, but I have drawn a few revivals and restorations, in which I aim for either facsimile-level authenticity or major reinterpretation, I’m not a big fan of tinkering. I wor…7 -
Re: Are we heading towards a "VariableFontCloud"?
Then, practising type designers will become high-concept style curators. That is, if their social media identities are free of blemish.7 -
Re: I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
Theunis, I wasn’t addressing drudgery, but the quality of a type design. By artificially removing the type designer’s exercise of taste in determining spacing, design veers towards impoverished me-to…4 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
A big IBM insert in today’s Globe and Mail. I note that the word “IBM” in Plex Sans, featuring a serifed I, evokes the slab-serifed “I” of the company’s logo.4 -
Re: What was the very first typeface described as “feminine”?
I’m sure this wasn’t the first such description, but let’s get the ball rolling: Factors in the Choice of Typefaces, by Geoffrey Dowding. Wace & Co., London, 1957 p. 81: Suitability—or fitness fo…3
