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Re: ATypI 2026 Sharjah – who is going?
This is not a matter of ‘people who disagree’, or of an ‘ever-changing political litmus test’. This is about ATypI providing institutional international legitimacy to a company that actively supports…9 -
Re: Chernikhov’s Academic alphabet: why treat the module as law?
Futura’s caps are lovely, especially spaced like Roman inscriptional capitals. I still remember walking down a corridor in a restaurant in Vancouver towards a door on which was written, in raised met…3 -
Re: Chernikhov’s Academic alphabet: why treat the module as law?
There is a long history of grid-based alphabets in various scripts, including many examples for Latin dating from the Middle Ages on. They are often linked to more-or-less esoteric beliefs about the …4 -
Re: Hundar, a workhorse typeface for general and specialist usage
Yes, this belongs to a fairly small genre of text types constructed from angular strokes. It’s the nature of such genres — small number of exemplars with a strong and distinctive character — that the…5 -
Re: MFB Oldstyle (and ahistorical Greek)
What you are describing there is usuallly referred to as a grade axis. The other key factor of grade is that it doesn’t affect spacing, so weight is added or trimmed without changing the advance widt…1
