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Re: Critique on Hebrew design wanted
Contradictory? Of course it is, but it also reflects a certain inertia and the difficulty to achieve compromises among factions with different cultural perspectives. Considering the era in which the …1 -
Re: Critique on Hebrew design wanted
Why don’t you start by asking Garamont, himself? I don’t know what Hebrew might be considered an equivalent to Adobe Garamond (which one?), but I can tell you that there are forty French Renaissance …1 -
Re: Critique on Hebrew design wanted
There is a famous quotation usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw that goes, “England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” So it is with Hebrew typography in Israel and …2 -
Re: A Grand Romance
I’m not sure which version you refer to—perhaps the old, rather weak Linotype fonts? In my view, Granjon may have been the greatest punch cutter of all time. Look at all the types he made for Christo…1 -
Re: Critique on Hebrew design wanted
Thank you, John Savard, for mentioning metal Monotype Hebrew. You are correct in saying that the composition matrices had only two widths. This system was developed at the Lanston (American) Monotype…3
