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Re: MyFonts and families
Interest in Google fonts, Commercial Type, and Creative Market has been rising over the same time period. So my hypothesis is that it’s the result of new competitors and hot new typefaces being anno…3 -
Re: Books About Type Design and Founding in the United States of America
The Annenberg deal is especially nice because it’s the second edition, which has eight appendices by Saxe.2 -
Re: Custom fonts: pricing of interpolated weights
I increase the cost of masters based on time I expect to spend proofing the interpolations. For example, I designed a set of Didone display faces with optical sizes. The differences were relatively m…3 -
Re: Information about a typeface: Bruce
Thanks for the images Pablo. Those same designs turn up later in the Kinsley catalogue. I checked Bruce Jr.’s book and he said Kinsley bought matrices from the Starr Brothers. Down the rabbit hole I …3 -
Re: Information about a typeface: Bruce
Based on the name I think this is one of the fat face designs cut at the Bruce Foundry in New York. IIRC the Bruce foundry sold matrices to some other foundries (See David Bruce Jr.’s History of Type…2
