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Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
Congratulations to Mr Hudson on a well-deserved accolade. I'm proud to be on a forum where a craftsman of his caliber comments. Perhaps Microsoft will choose to replace their serif default font for M…3 -
Re: Industrial typefaces
Thank you. Quintessentially American-industrial is the I-beam -- the steel pylon shaped like a slab-serif, uppercase /I/, to withstand stresses from all sides. That steel beam, and the stolen labor o…3 -
Re: Industrial typefaces
I think "industrial" has always been ambiguous, when we use it in regard to fonts. Now that I think about it, it seems we've let it denote two different things. 1) fonts that required some …3 -
Re: Industrial typefaces
This discussion seems to leave out the serif fonts that might have a right to be called 'industrial.' When I think of 'industrials serifs,' I tend to go back to mid-19th century, early-Victorian indu…2 -
Re: Characteres Elzeviriens: another French beauty from the Lead Age
Yes, you're right. I had a strong hunch about that, I just didn't know which one came out first. I think Koenig/Schoeder's Roemische was cut around 1884 or 1886? Anyway, I'm a big fan of that font. A…1
