It warms my heart that you keep checking back, Raphaël. The site was most active during the times of my life when I was freelancing and not fully employed. That hasn’t been the case for a while, and … (View Post)
I'm particularly impressed with the “toilet seat” lettering in that it echoes the pen strokes of the accompanying artwork. I wonder what fonts (if any) the system uses as models. (View Post)
My favorite piece of historical hardware specifically made for type design is the Ikarus digitizer. Here’s a photo of an early model, courtesy DTL: You can see a later model being used by Jim Rimmer … (View Post)
Any reason you’re limited to pre-1800? There was a lot more stylistic innovation and experimentation in type design in the 19th century – thousands more typefaces, many of them not revived. That said… (View Post)