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Re: Letterform Innovation?
Structure, not applied style. Here are a few systemic inventions and reforms to writing systems/alphabets: 1. Hangul 1443 2. Petrine reform of Cyrillic 1708 3. Masonic cypher (18th century) 4. Cherok…4 -
Re: Visual Alternatives to Times New Roman?
Are you the only student in this class? If not, then the reason for using a “default” typeface such as Times Roman is so that everyone’s work will be judged on their writing, not their font choice. A…6 -
Re: Numerals and distinction between capital O and number 0
This four is the tallest figure I’m aware of—lining, cap height, plus descender! The style is Scotch Modern Italic.1 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
The biggest difference between then and now: there were two quite distinct photo-technologies, one for display (with quite large glyph images, on a 2-inch film strip) and one for text, with much smal…3 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I try to avoid neutral. Being in gear takes one much further.2
