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Re: Helvetica Semi-Mono (?)
Just as an aside, but maybe useful to your project, @"Evie S.": David Jonathan Ross recently wrote a lot about width systems for monospaced type design in the notes for his latest Font of t…5 -
Re: Moving type – your favourite examples
Welcome back, KP! On the brand identity side, I think Collins does some of the best work (and works with the best foundries) in moving type. See Muse (with Contrast Foundry), SF Symphony (with Dinamo…2 -
Re: Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices
To me, the writing smells very strongly of AI. That doesn’t mean the stories behind it aren’t true, but there’s a lot of repetition of general ideas wrapped around very few specifics. The trouble wit…4 -
Re: Fonts Ninja (online type index)
Congrats on the update. It’s nice to have the all caps or all lowercase preview settings on the typeface pages, but I would include both in the default preview. A sentence or set of capitalized words…2 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
The original European issue of Palatino in metal had most of those shapes. In About Alphabets (1970), Zapf says he was advised (by folks like Paul Standard and W. A. Dwiggins) that the American marke…10
