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Re: Turns out people don't know what g looks like
Teaching type design to graphic design students, in University, I found that many of them instinctively placed the crossbar of /f low, as in Antique Olive.1 -
Re: Should the bullet sign be slanted in italic?
I vary my practice depending on the typeface. Usually, the bullet is round in both roman and italic, but in some, even the roman bullet isn’t circular:3 -
Re: Infant type revisited
I don’t think this 20th century style-mixing was specific to any one alphabetic concept (infant, fraktur or geometric), but rather emerged as something foundries did “because they could”. It was an i…1 -
Re: Optical compensations and writing tools
For those interested in the philosophy of vision, some works on perspective: Perspective as Symbolic Form, Erwin Panofsky, 1924 (originally written in German) The Origin of Perspective, Hugo Damisch,…3 -
Re: Infant type revisited
It could also be argued that, along with Fraktur and Infant, Futuristic (after Paul Renner’s design) is another valid description of the single-bowl a and g configuration.1
