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Re: Books about the Didots
James, if you search the the Bibliothèque Nationale digital documents library, Gallica, you'll find nearly two hundred items related to the Didots, including many entire books and manuscripts. You'll…2 -
Re: The future of type
I think the proverbial Man from Mars might see all of the incarnations of typography as just mechanized writing systems of one sort or another. The gulfs between them are minuscule compared to the di…4 -
Re: Text comprehension research
If you do a search for "typography and reading comprehension" you'll find a lot of material. A good place to start, if you don't know the literature and need a further bibliography, is this…7 -
Re: Two thoughts about Google after Typographics
Yes, it was terribly harsh and I apologize for its seeming inappropriateness. I was bringing to it a certain knowledge that, on second thought, I realize is not widely understood. For the sake of cla…0 -
Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
As stated above, tabular old style figures are often needed for the table of contents or tabular matter in a text that uses old style figures throughout. In metal type (including machine-set metal ty…3
