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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: Ergonomics for designers
The things that helped me most with shoulder/neck/arm/hand strain are: * trackball – Kensington Expert Mouse for over 20 years! * positioning – screen at eye level when sitting upright, elbows on des…1 -
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).4 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Other than the amount Google paid for Spectral (75,000 EUR), this is the most interesting part of the doc to me: There are excerpts from Jeremy Tankard and Paul Shaw in support of Porchez’s case, and…2
