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Re: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
I make the Regular first. It embodies and clarifies the ethos of the typeface best, in particular stroke contrast, angle of stress and cadence (the new word for rhythm/colour—Erik Spiekermann and oth…3 -
Re: Releasing Cyrillic for an existing Latin family
The basic Cyrillic encoding (1251) includes a very basic Latin character set, with no accents—good enough for English.2 -
Re: Carry on or stop?
Who knows where the “technical” challenge will lead? Ed Benguiat, a phenomenal draftsman, drew/cut/painted stuff like this for PLINC, if I’m not mistaken; now the tools are quite different, but the c…1 -
Re: Diversification Postmortem
Bowdlerize! Haven’t come across that word in a long time. Spot on, in a thread discussing boycotting.4 -
Re: Proportional vs. Tabular Numbers
Nonetheless, it is unlikely that a display font would be used for tabular work. Similarly, given that tabular settings are a very small amount of the total of typesetting, surely it makes sense to ha…1
