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Re: Looking for good scan of Austin Specimen
Thank you, all, for your various comments on paper manufacturing, and Nick, for your reminder of Mayhew, which, as a student, I tried to slog through in all its volumes, but never succeeded. I do rem…1 -
Re: Renaissance Font Reproduction for Historical Music Notation Software
What you are facing here, Sam, is something that all designers of historical revivals come up against: determining the level of signal-to-noise ratio you are trying to preserve or move away from. Wil…1 -
Re: Mid-70s Lettering Effects Service
Max, this article has some references for you: http://creativepro.com/scanning-around-with-gene-part-2-of-that-70s-type/ Dan Solo was truly a master of this craft, which was accomplished largely thro…4 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
Lance Hidy’s Penumbra, in its original Multiple Master form (released by Adobe in 1994), is a prime example of a “concept font.” It was the first—and only—MM font that deployed a style variation slid…3 -
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
