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Re: Haney Sans: my independent study type design project
Congratulations, Mark. You’ve come along way. It was good of Ben and Alex to mentor you; hopefully you’ll go on to Reading or the KaBK.2 -
Re: New Microsoft size-specific design selection mechanism
You better fake the weights values below 250. Set weight values below 250. It’s not your font Microsoft lets incompetents design and code software. If users complain tell them whose fault the bug is.2 -
Re: The FJ vs. H lawsuit thread.
“The idea that there were such things as “typographers,” people whose job was to draw letters…” Nice to see that they fact-checked the first paragraph of that article. And threw scare quotes around a…1 -
Re: Teachers, show us your reading lists
I wrote this list in 2011. I would no longer recommended Lupton’s Thinking With Type. Jan Middendorp’s Shaping Text is a better introductory text in every respect; it covers more, is better designed,…3 -
Re: The new trend in fonts
...said the stock photographers in the early 90's. Don't see many of those guys around these days. One can’t shoot a couple dozen good fonts in an afternoon. And there’s still plenty of high-end stoc…1