Scott-Martin Kosofsky

Thanks for this interesting post. French types of the 19th century haven’t been ignored entirely: Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger recently collaborated on a family of types called Empirica, wh… (View Post)

This is an example of phototypesetting, and a rather good one at that. You can tell by the softness of the imaging, which was output onto photosensitive paper from a film matrix. I suspect it is the … (View Post)

Not only is this excellent work (bravo!), I think it sets an important example: that designing a type for small text by beginning with a small model, rather than scaling down a larger one, yields res… (View Post)

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,… (View Post)

This is ignorant nonsense, written by someone whose only knowledge of serif roman letters would appear to be Times New Roman.  (View Post)