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Re: Women in History of Typography
Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie and Helena Lekka have a research project through the University of Reading: Women in Type. See also Fiona and Alice talking about the project at ATypI 2018. And see, of cours…6 -
Re: The Morisawa competition is open.
The purpose of the competition, for Morisawa, is to identify new and unreleased typefaces — both Japanese and Latin — that they might want to publish. As someone else noted, this is similar in intent…5 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
It wasn't concocted by Aldus: scribes had been using different styles of letters to differentiate and emphasise content, including using formal upright and cursive slanted styles together. Simil…4 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
It's worth considering why that would be the case. I consider consistent texture or 'colour' a byproduct of the actually beneficial design goal. What we're really talking about is…3 -
Re: A Spectre Haunts Photoshop: Adobe Fontphoria
What's most striking in the numerous illustrations in the paper showing the results alongside the original designs — the 'Ground Truth' — is just how bad that prediction is. While the …1
