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Re: Who designed Prestige Elite?
The Museum of Printing, in Haverhill, MA, acquired John Schappler’s entire typographic collection—some 11,000 pieces, including his correspondence concerning various aspects of type design. In fact, …1 -
Re: A Meditation on Arno
If the late, great James Brown was the “hardest working man in show business,” then Robert Slimbach must be the “hardest working man in type design.” He may well be the most underrated, too. Like Bro…4 -
Re: List of glyphs that remain upright in italics
I agree with André. The tradition in metal typefounding was to make a set of mathematical symbols and operators in each size, in a single weight, to be used with any font. These included parentheses,…5 -
Defending the typographic downtrodden
This appeared today on the Washington Post’s op-ed page: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/25/i-dont-care-what-others-say-this-is-typeface-me/?arc404=true Given the rest of today's news…1 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
I believe that the word that is wanted here is “standard,” meaning : 1. “Something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model”; 2. “an object that is…1
