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Re: Romanée – New Release?
It appears that a digital revival of Romanée has already been made by Mark Askam, of the Chestnut Press: http://www.thechestnutpress.com/romanee.html. It is a personal-use font, used in letterpress p…1 -
Re: Romanée – New Release?
Under U.S. law, the designs of typefaces are not subject to copyright protection, though their names may be trademarked. Digital fonts can receive copyright protection, but only as computer code. So,…4 -
Re: Dyslexie font - activism
A neurologist friend tells me that, in a variety of perceptual maladies similar to dyslexia, new strategies that introduce an unfamiliar element may appear to work at first, but as the brain becomes …1 -
Re: The vinyl records of font formats
Mark, it is a misconception that there is no compression in the making of vinyl records. Quite to the contrary, it was always necessary to compensate for transient peaks in analog tape recordings so …6 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Another point: From the era of photocomposition until the advent of PostScript type, when the metal type foundries had folded or were on their last legs, each machine manufacturer made its own fonts,…5