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Re: Purchasing old type-specimens
How old is old? Only original printed books or scanned ones? ZVAB has many used books related to typography: https://www.zvab.com/buch-suchen/titel/d-stempel-ag/ Complete set of types or only a line …3 -
Re: Glyph Collector
Just detected this discussion via Youtube and Google. OCR meets Glyphdrawers. I'm coming from OCR of historical books. It's a difficult science with differente expert fields like automatic…3 -
Re: Does any language use the straight quote as an orthographic letter?
Even German typographers can't agree which type of quotes are the right one, opening low and closing high versus guillemets. And with feet and inches as a fontmaker you shouldn't forget U+2…2 -
Re: Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)
It's a little bit more complicated. First is to look which local law applies. This depends on international agreements between countries, private international law or if applicable international…2 -
Vienna’s Last Signpainter
A nice video about a now retired signpainter. Not exactly typography. Viennese dialect with English subtitles. https://www.tomkoch.net/typetraveldiary/item/508-vienna-s-last-signpainter-documentary3
