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Re: Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book
As the proposal was first published in Westvaco Inspirations for Printers, they could find the appropriate issue, scan that, and credit the publisher.3 -
Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
Copying an old printed text sample, revival or restoration, needs to take account of the two media it bridges. —Stanley Morison, A Tally of Types The gulf between metal and digital typography cannot …7 -
Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
I think it’s best to work out basic criteria for yourself, in two ways. Firstly, by examining how others have done it, by opening up their fonts and seeing if there are any general principles that em…2 -
Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
@"mauro sacchetto" However, several classic serif faces have notably wider sidebearings on /I. Standardization may seem like a good idea, but I have to wonder whether this “cut and paste” e…4 -
Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
I can see it might be useful for the textured stuff Ray mentions, but for me, I’ve tried it a few times on solid types, and it took so long to clean up the autotracing, why bother, so I just manually…2
