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Re: Tips on drawings?
Use methods that build up letter shapes, rather than trying to draw outlines. For example, draw a skeletal structure, and then incrementally add weight to it to build up the modulated strokes. Or try…1 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
For the record: I do not have any kind of formal qualification or undertook any formal education in type design, nor do I have a background in graphic design. I came into the field via the antiquaria…6 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
I’ve cast metal, so I am sympathetic, James. On the other hand, lots of industries retain historical terminology across technological changes. In this case, the term ‘type foundry’ is a kind of termi…3 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
I have made a living as a type designer for almost 30 years, and it has never been exactly easy, but that is in part because I only set out of make a living and to spend most of my time designing typ…16 -
Re: How many type designers would use an AI assisted plug-in/app
I think about machine learning in the context of the kinds of roughing-in for which I already use a variety of scripts, and would expect similar amounts of manual refinement of results.1
