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Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
It is rather difficult to imagine that we've forgotten Daniel Berkeley Updike's Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; A Study in Survivals. (FYI, the revised 2nd ed., 1937, is far …4 -
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: Should we enable polls on TypeDrawers?
This reminds me of a story. In the 1960s and early-1970s, a late friend of mine was the curator of musical instruments at the Smithsonian Institution. For a two-week period one summer, he found himse…3 -
Re: Multi-lingual / multi-script typefaces
As someone who works daily with books that involve as many as four or five scripts (and their weights and italics and small caps, where applicable), I can tell you that using fonts in which multiple …3 -
Re: The FJ vs. H lawsuit thread.
Martin, you've touched upon some of life's central ethical questions: To what extent am I required to stand up for justice? And how can I be sure my position is just? We don't know all…7
