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Re: Replace ß by smallcap eszett or smallcap ss?
Yes, I was wrong, it’s not the Zehlendorf. But I do think it’s quite distinct from the Dresden; so I will call it the “Orangeville” (where I have my studio).3 -
Re: Replace ß by smallcap eszett or smallcap ss?
One thing I note from this discussion is that the Dresden style, as used in the Typedrawers font, looks too much like the lower case ß. When I first started adding this character to my typefaces, at …3 -
Re: An opportunity for early-career creatives at Google Fonts
As a job-function description, the term emerged during the DDB-led Madison Avenue “Creative Revolution” of the 1960s. The Suits/Creatives terminology was in play when I was in the ad biz in the 1980s…3 -
Re: Margo Chase & Madonna
There was a Goth sensibility to Chase’s work back then, spiky and condensed (or horizontally extended). Mix in some distress. With that vocabulary in play, there was not much need for precedent. Besi…3 -
Re: Most common kern pairs
I designed Oneleigh Italic with a kernless constraint in cap-lc and lc-lc combinations. This was possible by using swash forms of the problem caps, and adopting the “reverse angle stress” lower case …4
