Once upon a time Erik van Blokland drew the word BEER with all four crossbars at different heights. Programming that effect as contextual alternates for appropriate words like BEER and BURP does feel… (View Post)
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… (View Post)
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… (View Post)
@"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… (View Post)
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 … (View Post)