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Re: "Helvetica Now" - "Monotype redesigns Helvetica for the digital age"
Mark and Dan are more or less correct. “Standard” was simply the name given to Berthold’s Akzidenz Grotesk by its U.S. importer, Amsterdam Continental, which was one of only two major type importers.…4 -
Re: Printer recommendations for proofing?
Here’s the current reality about print books vs. ebooks: At the end of 2018, the American Booksellers Association reported that the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. increased for the nint…3 -
Re: Hebrew need for another mark in unicode - Sheva Na, Dagesh Hazeq
There is another nikkud (Hebrew for vocalization mark) that should be first on the list: the chataf kamatz katan ("reduced kamatz katan"), which is considered an essential “balancing” phone…3 -
Re: The Current State of Variable Fonts (End of 2018)
Here are a couple of posts from two years ago that failed to predict the future: I failed to mention what should have been my lead point about MM: very few people cared about its intrinsically good q…3 -
Re: The Current State of Variable Fonts (End of 2018)
Thomas, I recall that Quark did, indeed, include a pull-down menu to access the Multiple Master “Font Creator.” It was available at least by 1994, perhaps in late 1993. I remember this because it was…2