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Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
I haven’t signed the new contract, and don’t intend to. It’s sad, as MyFonts enabled my type business in the first place and was its mainstay for many years. But there is no loyalty in big business. …10 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
One measure of the ubiquity of Times: it was the default face of American pulp fiction in the mid-20th century. It could take an absurd amount of abuse and still function, rather like hard-boiled pri…3 -
Re: Just curious... do you enjoy drawing the thin or black masters more?
Black is a horrible chore, when it comes to figure variants and characters such as ampersand and Eszett—and that’s just Latin. A big problem is characters that don’t have a consistent angle of stress…2 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
How then do you explain big companies that pursue the trending initiatives of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), beyond such measures as are required by the laws of their country? Certainly, the …1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Thomas, I’ll wait to hear from Dave about who at Google chooses what fonts to publish, before further explanation.2
