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Re: Specific diacritic designs depending on language
If you look at German foundry and type-house specimens of the mid 20th century, you will find quite a few typefaces with low umlauts on the caps. I will post some images next week. A classic example …2 -
Re: Anti-Ink-Traps
I produced Brown (left) and Worldwide (centre) initially for newsprint, optically scaled. The minting sharpens up body type, and provides visual interest at display size. The third style is Beaufort,…2 -
Re: Playboy
Art directors provided type houses with a rough layout of the ad and typed copy (text), marked up for typeface, size, leading, paragraph indent and extra leading, and measure (line length). The headl…2 -
Re: When did the "Serif vs. Sans" derby started?
Working as an art director in the early 1990s, I would try out different typefaces for new projects, and was struck by how old-fashioned serifed styles made things look—and retro was not in fashion e…1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
I continue to be impressed with the title of this thread, so important sounding!—authoritative, erudite, technical and obscure. And with an f_f_i ligature to boot. One more time: Council for German O…1
