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Re: Characteres Elzeviriens: another French beauty from the Lead Age
Right now I need to stay put, as I am trying to make of type design my main job (I quit my job last year) and so I have to go ahead and complete both families of historical revivals (like the origin…1 -
Re: "Cursive" italic forms
Very nice, but it’s monolinear. What makes Script 12 Pitch so fascinating to me it’s that modulation: from calligraphic sources but very mechanic at the same time. Jonathan Hoefler managed to achiev…1 -
Re: Industrial typefaces
We could call DIN “modern industrial” — but more invested with a "normative” need, an idea of function brought forth and reinforced by the modernist vocation, such as OCR or signage typefaces.1 -
Re: Industrial typefaces
Most of which, not incidentally, originated during the second Industrial Revolution. :)1 -
Re: "Cursive" italic forms
Matrix is another matter. It’s just an unconnected script, the forms favored probably because of personal taste by Zuzana Licko, but in the end is a conventional serif italic with more calligraphic f…2
