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Re: The (real) size of a typeface
I noticed something like that when I designed Beaufort. The sharply pointed glyphic serifs remain sharp at any size, this being a quality of vector-based digital fonts. On another tack, I would say t…5 -
Re: Just how am I supposed to browse for new fonts?
At the front end: Fontlab has had a number of standard character/glyph sets for a while, listed as “Default Encoding”. But I must admit, although I may start a typeface with one of these, I usually f…1 -
Re: What is a font for most people and just about the type industry of this time.
The best reference I came across for the Cyrillic of my Scotch Modern restoration was the 1888 specimen of Harkov (Kharkiv) typefounder Adolph Darre. Beautifully sophisticated work.2 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
I’ve been making a decent living from fonts for 20 years, since e-commerce was introduced, in fact. That was something I got into early, and the typefaces I designed then are the ones that keep selli…3 -
Re: Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag
Well sleuthed! It just goes to show that using style to date an artefact is no guarantee of accuracy, as historic genres overlap on the time scale. And that’s without revivals. So, just as today ’90s…2
