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Re: Jan Middendorp has died.
Jan had the title “Type Writer” on his business card. I always wanted to emulate that career, and will probably spend the rest of mine trying to live up to his.3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
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.5 -
Re: Type Design Hardware?
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 …6 -
Re: Where to find old fonts?
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…4 -
Re: Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
Our house numbers are about as far stylistically from Neutraface as possible (but have their origins just about 20 years later).3
