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Re: Should we enable polls on TypeDrawers?
This reminds me of a story. In the 1960s and early-1970s, a late friend of mine was the curator of musical instruments at the Smithsonian Institution. For a two-week period one summer, he found himse…3 -
Re: Multi-lingual / multi-script typefaces
As someone who works daily with books that involve as many as four or five scripts (and their weights and italics and small caps, where applicable), I can tell you that using fonts in which multiple …3 -
Re: The FJ vs. H lawsuit thread.
Martin, you've touched upon some of life's central ethical questions: To what extent am I required to stand up for justice? And how can I be sure my position is just? We don't know all that transpire…7 -
Re: Gong—how did they do this?
James, I would think there was some form of photoengraving involved with the making of Gong. It's very unlikely there would have been punches involved, though it could have been cut into soft metal f…1 -
Re: Neology: a type design experiment in readability
There's a sizable literature out there on this subject, much of it in journals of educational psychology, though I can't claim to have read very much of it. What I have read, though, struck me as eit…2
