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Re: Oblique and Italic in same family
I would go with the sub-family. So many otherwise excellent typographers don’t even know that Stylistic Sets exist. But you can still include the Obliques as a Stylistic Set in the Italics (and vice …3 -
Re: An interesting logotype
Perhaps it was the trend towards single spaces between sentences. If people were used to two spaces, a sentence ending in <period-doublequote-space> followed by capital T, V, Y or W would put t…1 -
Re: An interesting logotype
Ah ha! — I’ve tracked it down, in “Linotype One-Line Specimens”, 1958, New York. I had been expecting to find it under “Logotypes”, not with the punctuation, which is why I missed it at first.11 -
Re: MyFonts and families
Don’t bet on it. Distress and casual scripts have been popular since emerging in the grungy 1990s. They are the high-touch antidote to soulless high-tech, the vernacular riposte to slick marketing, t…11 -
Re: Slashed zero with downstroke?
Firstly, in all cap setting it’s much too obvious, to the point of appearing to be either a mistake or very precious. But it can be sweet with small caps, pointedly quaint. Secondly, in mixed case se…3
