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Re: Kris Sowersby's "Welcome to the Infill Font Foundry"
That's about right, Chris, even if it was a little more gradual than a single year. At least 2004 was a peak for new foundry launches: Number of foundries established each year. From Ruxandra Duru’s …5 -
Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
Syntax, Legacy Sans, and Today Sans were pioneers, but they aren’t the dead end of this idea. They approach the concept in very different ways, and I think Christian’s take has merit in its own right…2 -
Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
I'll leave it to the real type designers to suggest how you can improve the text, but it may require more advice than anyone is willing to give for free. Jürgen’s objection to your ‘s’ may have somet…3 -
Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
I do worry, Christian, that you're focusing a bit too much on the individual glyphs and not enough on the performance as a whole, particularly in text. That ‘Q’, for instance, just won’t work as a de…1 -
Re: Two thoughts about Google after Typographics
By the way, given the type community’s interest in (and concern about) Google Fonts, I’m surprised how few font makers were at this lunch. Most of the attendees were font users.1
