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Re: Letterform Innovation?
I attended an Episcopal primary school in the late 70s (we were Catholic, and I guess my parents figured they’d explain the whole Pope thing later) and we started with Futuraesque upright block lette…1 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
Update: the winner was Bierstadt, now named Aptos, with newly unveiled mono and serif variants. The serif vaguely reminds me of Corporate A by Weidemann. https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-…1 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
I’d like to reformulate my original advice more concisely, speaking as one American to another.Do not borrow money to study graphic design for four years in the United States in pursuit of a career i…5 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
James, no, I am not a full-time type designer. I tried once, twenty years ago, then moved into “font engineering,” i.e. programming OpenType features when OpenType was new and the tools were more pri…2 -
Re: How many type designers would use an AI assisted plug-in/app
IMO the best place for automated type design is for OCRing old books. You can now buy open-book scanners that compensate for the curvature of pages; my PDF reader can already OCR text bitmaps into a …1
