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Re: Favorite typefaces to study or reference — or consider a model/guide?
It was a long time ago, back in the 1980s, that I first became deeply interested in the designers behind typefaces and their process. The types that most impressed and influenced me were Souvenir, Pa…2 -
Re: Fun, detailed essay on old machine-routing font
A good point Thomas, but some distance in time is required for a typeface name to become generic. For instance, Myriad is not referred to as a Frutiger, nor Montserrat a Gotham. For that matter, it’s…1 -
Re: Drawing greek letters
It’s worth comparing the commercial designs at Parachute, a Greek foundry, with the academic orthodoxy that is generally followed by non-native designers of Greek types. Not quite as loggerheads as V…2 -
Punctuation education
I can thoroughly recommend this brilliant book, which I recently came across, as having some relevance to type designers—especially in showing instances of how punctuation marks appear in grammatical…4 -
Re: Drawing greek letters
Don’t just look at the alphabet, try it in Greek text. (I give the same advice for all language scripts.)4
