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Re: Type Design Hardware?
LG does offer 8K in a 65 inch model, corresponding to four 32.5 inch 4Ks, or by extension sixteen 16.2 inch 1080p laptop screens. Lots of the larger displays are classified as televisions rather than…1 -
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
