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Re: Looking for information on early-twentieth-century letterpress book face
I had forgotten about Linotype Estienne, which was released in 1930. I'm not a fan of high x-heights, but Estienne's x-height is very, very low. In order to avoid the “crochet-hook” f, a characterist…1 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
Woburn, Massachusetts, is best known for another reason entirely: a toxic waste (Trichlorethylene) calamity that poisoned the town’s drinking water and caused an outrageously high incidence of certai…5 -
Re: Under what conditions can I modify a font for commercial use?
I make fonts and I also buy fonts. Because I work in books, I almost always have the opportunity to credit type designers for their contribution. I like to think my work has been of benefit—or, at le…2 -
Re: Milton Glaser, type designer
Looking at specimens in the post, I am struck by how good they are and, even more telling, how I can remember having seen each one, in some cases not for decades. Milton’s type designs have the quali…2 -
Re: Reviving French classics from the later Lead Age
Thanks for this interesting post. French types of the 19th century haven’t been ignored entirely: Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger recently collaborated on a family of types called Empirica, wh…4
