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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
> Also hats off to whoever added this animation to its “About” screen: That was @"Erik van Blokand". If you need it as a gif…5 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
Thanks for spreading the word, Igor. I stopped posting on Twitter in late 2022. I can’t justify participating in a platform with ownership that is so untrustworthy and destructive. More importantly, …5 -
Re: Type Design Books Collection
The most complete and current practical guide to type design came out last year: Making Fonts (Designing Fonts in Europe) by Chris Campe and Ulrike Rausch.6 -
Type specimen word/phrase generator?
While working on my book, I needed words or phrases that contained the most distinctive glyphs from each typeface while meeting width and language requirements, along with other criteria. Finding the…4 -
Much of Thompson’s “The Script Letter” is nearly copied from a book that came 100 years before
I wanted to reply to a comment by @PabloImpallari in this thread, but didn’t want to veer off topic, so I’m posting it here. It’s a remarkable accusation, and I was skeptical at first, but he’s not f…3
