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Re: History of type communities, and its future?
In the 90s we had comp.fonts. In the 2000s we had Typophile and the Typographica comments section. Today we have this, and typografie.info in the germanosphere, and typo.social for more twittersome d…1 -
Re: Visible Language archive issues freely downloadable
Zapf printed several of his own books in Zapf Renaissance at text sizes. On the right paper it’s perfectly readable to me. I think the “need” for thicker small optical sizes has been overhyped at tim…1 -
Re: Visible Language archive issues freely downloadable
@"konrad ritter" do check out Galliard eText that Carl Crossgrove adapted for ITC some years back, as well as Graveur by Juanjo Lopez, which includes an optical axis. I will always love Gal…4 -
Re: Music?
As it happens, not long ago I took Argetsinger’s chronological list of historical type designers and chased down which historical composers were contemporaneous with them, so I’d know what to listen …10 -
Visible Language archive issues freely downloadable
I’ve been fixated on Galliard for a few decades now, and Granjon’s types that preceded it, and other newer types also based on those. By way of a few breadcrumbs I managed to find a 1985 article in V…6
