John Butler · Organism

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 …

The gentrification font: how a sleek typeface became a neighborhood omen As it happens, years ago I recommended the Neutraface house numbers from DWR to a friend who had bought and restored a mid-cen…

Heh, yeah, that’s The Guardian for you. Class warfare lurking in every font.* *class kerning does indeed lurk in many fonts

I don’t earn a livelihood as a type designer or the employee of one, but I generally spend more on fonts each year than I spend on hardware or other software. Post-Monotype Myfonts has lost lots of d…

Speaking as a font consumer, I simply want to be able to continue to buy a perpetual, per-CPU transferable font license with no stupid subscription scheme.