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Re: Ray Cruz (RIP)
This is sad news. I don't recall when or where I first met him in NYC. He was always approachable and generous with his time. When he was a type director at Young & Rubicam, I was happy to be his…3 -
Re: RIP Ward Dunham
Dunham played an important role in promoting/reviving broad-pen lettering in the USA, and his textura calligraphy was published in multiple editions of the Speedball Handbook. Based in San Francisco,…2 -
Re: DSType selling part of its collection to Monotype
@"Vasil Stanev" @"jeremy tribby" Have you read your Douglas Hofstadter? Yet this is an age of "AI", so I admit that software eats nearly everything. Could AI work for ty…1 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
On the "ball and stick" form of handwriting instruction, it exists before Futura, but not before the 19th century types mentioned previously.3 -
Re: Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today
Herbert Simon: "Everyone designs who devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones". So by improving AI tools, what is the desired goal? To make most ty…1
