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Re: Type design hot takes
It’s certainly unpopular with me! Very well made photographic reproductions are the best method for the reproduction of print typography. Two of the samples here, the 17th-century Dutch book and the …1 -
Re: A new character?
I had always associated this kind of unnecessary accenting with the byways of U.S. commerce. There was a Chrysler car in the 1970s called the “Volaré,” as if the name needed an acute accent to get th…2 -
Re: Printer recommendations for proofing?
I have a Phaser 6510 and I find it excellent in every respect that matters to me, which is to say that it produces hyper-accurate representations of black type and reasonable representations of type …1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
My new hot take is: designers who say “design for the future.” Whose future? Graphic design and its typographic branch are, like fashion and architecture, forever aware of their past, which inevitabl…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
I hate all typefaces—except the good ones. As a designer of complex, layered texts, I find small caps indispensable, and I especially like having italic small caps, as Granjon made them. The proporti…3
