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Re: Is There Such a Thing as a Crystal Goblet?
Warde was Monotype’s marketing manager, and a brilliant copywriter. She also penned the once ubiquitous This is a Printing Office. Her crystal goblet metaphor was nothing if not extremely posh, enhan…2 -
Re: Infant type revisited
Andreas, what’s with the loopy “k”?—that’s much too complex for an infant! And the “h” that looks like a “b”? The overall departure from a standard roman style is as much fraktur as infant.1 -
Re: How would you call the italic equivalent of serifs?
Indeed, Thomas. And we still prefer the archaic “italic” (relating to the style’s origin) rather than “oblique”, “slanted” or “skewed”.1 -
Re: Avoid "stroke"
I can’t help seeing type in terms of strokes. In particular, when I look at an A or V which is perfectly symmetrical, it looks like the “down” stroke is thinner than the “up”.4 -
Re: Looking for early examples of type designed for materials other than paper.
Dymo® LabelWriter™ technology.3
