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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 …9 -
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 -
Re: Is using diacritics as a design choice in bad taste?
The diaresis also occurs in English, famously in its last remaining holdout The New Yorker, e.g. coöperate, reëlect. Therefore heavy metal bands are all not-so-secretly subscribers to Thë Nëw Yörkër.…2
