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Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
Log tables, 1942. This is from the book “Four-figure Mathematical Tables”, which my mother first used when she was an architectural student.2 -
Re: Is Bold Italic Not Cost Effective Anymore?
I have only omitted Bold Italic once, out of all the faces that I’ve made which include a Bold. However, I have omitted Thin Italic and Black Italic in several typefaces, with those weights in roman.…1 -
Re: Em Alignments and Vertical Space?
I recall that back in the 1980s some styles of Univers were available in different sizes on the same body. But I don’t recall which system, I would have to pore through a lot of old specimen books to…1 -
Re: Type fiction
HISTORICAL FICTION Revivals in which glyphs are imagined for genres which did not exist at the time of the original: In Figgins Sans, based on a bold, all cap English font from the 1830s, I made up l…2 -
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
