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Re: ATypI 90 in Oxford
I was there. I was just getting ready to start at RIT and I think Dave Berlow mentioned the conference. I pulled the pieces together without a minute to spare and it was my first experience with othe…1 -
Re: New chunky backslant script
Nick, splendid as usual. I notice some of the same things; and my critique is usually about legibility issues: s is so ambiguous to me that it looked like a stumpy l (ell) or f. Outstroke of z could …1 -
Re: Rules while designing Italics
Short answer: No. Look at the function of Italics (and Bold, and other family variants) in deciding what kind of role Italic plays. Sometimes the Italic style is the only way that emphasis is likely …2 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
This one sentence has a lot to unpack. Slab serifs were regarded as freakish and abominable when it first appeared. Baskerville was feared as likely to hurt people. Innovations which we now see as fa…1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
One piece that is compelling in this discussion: A collective: many foundries together would each need to spend much less on marketing, legal, etc. and the available profits could be more equitably d…3
