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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 -
Re: Revivals?
I think there is enough “transformative” (in the copyright sense) work required by digitizing a font from a letterpress printing, to constitute an original design—provided that (a) the model is not o…3 -
Re: Capital Spacing
I never include this feature. I disagree with the premise of the feature tag definition, that “When capitals are used for words, they need more space between them for legibility and esthetics.”1 -
Re: Average number of type designers in a type design group.
Regarding general history, Fontshop was huge in nurturing indie designers like me prior to the internet era, and once the web took off, Typophile and Typecon were huge in enabling me to learn and net…2
