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Re: Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator
@"Simon Cozens" The ethical position is not that “parts of it are OK, so I’ll do that,” but that in toto it’s wrong. Pardon the cliché, but Mussolini made the trains run on time. AI is a a …3 -
Re: Favorite typefaces to study or reference — or consider a model/guide?
It was a long time ago, back in the 1980s, that I first became deeply interested in the designers behind typefaces and their process. The types that most impressed and influenced me were Souvenir, Pa…2 -
Re: Fun, detailed essay on old machine-routing font
A good point Thomas, but some distance in time is required for a typeface name to become generic. For instance, Myriad is not referred to as a Frutiger, nor Montserrat a Gotham. For that matter, it’s…1 -
Re: Drawing greek letters
It’s worth comparing the commercial designs at Parachute, a Greek foundry, with the academic orthodoxy that is generally followed by non-native designers of Greek types. Not quite as loggerheads as V…2 -
Punctuation education
I can thoroughly recommend this brilliant book, which I recently came across, as having some relevance to type designers—especially in showing instances of how punctuation marks appear in grammatical…4
