Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: Apple Watch typeface

    I guess the point I’m making is that modernism can be simplistic. Mid-century (20th), the classic modernists designed with an economy of form and careful proportion, while maintaining an inscrutable …
  • Re: Options for new type designers?

    If I was not sure about the business stuff, I would either go work for someone else to see how they do it, or I would develop my own foundry as a side project, slowly, figuring things out as I went a…
  • Re: Streamlining Dafont Creation?

    Les Paul attached a couple of “wings” to his solid-body guitar concept, and played it in a band. People thought he sounded great. For a typographic comparison, consider that the OpenType feature of C…
  • Re: Streamlining Dafont Creation?

    I don’t see how this differs from interpolation, which we have adjusted to for generating weights etc. (sometimes requiring extra fixed defaults along an axis). As long as the type designer can draw …
  • Re: The lowercase "e" and the "c"!

    No. The important thing is consistency* of terminals with other letters, and how /c and /e fit with following letters. *I don’t mean that they should all be the same, only that the nature of consiste…
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