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Re: Books on developing font weights?
Get The Modification of Letterforms by Stanley Hess. It explains how to build families with a variety of weights and widths. It’s a forgotten classic of type design.4 -
Re: Terminating Contract with Myfonts / pulling fonts off their website
You need to read the contract. They change it from time to time so the rest of us might not know what’s in the current contract. Also, you know all of those horrible stories about record labels signi…4 -
Re: How do you folks handle quality control?
I proof on paper at each stage of the design. Before I start kerning I run through huge brute force proofs that show combinations of letters and punctuation. I do those proofs again after kerning. Th…7 -
Re: Trackball mouse for type design?
I use a Kensington Expert Mouse. It’s a trackball the size of a billiards ball. I love it because it’s not at all twitchy like a mouse which makes it great for just grabbing those little nodes.3 -
Re: Will digital fonts ever enter the retro fashion cycle?
There’s already a Y2K aesthetic revival movement starting. Metalheart is coming back, too. I think we’re going to start seeing those 1995-2005 display fonts from Typodermic and Device popping up agai…1
