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Re: Overbold: Ignoring Eric Gill's Advice
Gill's 'overbold' illustration seems to me deliberately freakish, employing forms and techniques that don't follow from the models of extreme heavy types that were developed in th…2 -
Re: Font production frustrations and solutions
Industry font specs. I work through with my clients what their needs are and how to achieve these while retaining spec-compatibility. Of course, this presume that spec exist, which is not the case fo…1 -
Re: Font production frustrations and solutions
Something I learned a long time ago is to make fonts to spec, and not according to what works in a particular application. I know that's a difficult position for a lot of font makers who are lic…17 -
Re: blend tool fontlab
In FLVI all interpolation takes place in the variations panel, so in order to blend two different fonts you need to put them together as masters in a single source. This is actually pretty easy to do…4 -
Re: Never Mind Starling
The stuff in the rebuttal about the stamping of the series numbers in the Lanston brass patterns is impossible to answer, as Mike Parker acknowledged when we spoke after he read Nicholas Barker'…4
