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Re: Are printed specimens just fun objects or do they really help sell type?
I understand well the high cost of printing; over the past year paper prices have gone through the roof asa supply chains have been broken worldwide. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I’m perfectly …1 -
Re: Are printed specimens just fun objects or do they really help sell type?
I want to toss out another thought: type purchases are more often mnemonic than they are impulsive. A designer sees a type that looks interesting or enticing, but has no immediate need for it. But a …3 -
Re: Grunge Typography
One day you start a revolution; the next day you find that it has become a commodity and you are selling a style. So it was with grunge type, about which I agree with Chris Lozos’s distinctions, thou…2 -
Re: White on black
Sorry to seem overbearing, Indra. (Mansplaining, ouch!) What I had read in a number of the above posts appeared to describe either the printing reality of ±25 years ago or poorly printed items of the…1 -
Re: White on black
I feel like a cop saying “move on, nothing to see here, folks.” Please note that I said “thousands of existing fonts,” not all of them. It’s been estimated that that there are about a quarter million…1
