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Re: The automated creation of variable fonts from elementary fonts
What @"Simon Cozens" describes there reminds me a bit of what @"John Hudson" said in this comment to an older thread of mine (re: automating a comparison between hand-done glyphs …2 -
Re: Naming the 3s
Do we need anything beyond the simple "round-top" and "flat-top"?4 -
Re: Photo Typeface?
Another reason, I'd guess, is that in the digital era the letterpress infrastructure has stuck around in a way the phototype machinery hasn't (e.g. in printing shops, university design dept. basemen…3 -
Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
Because it came out after this thread's first life, but before it was revived, I'll drop a reference here to Victor Gaultney's work on the italic topic.2 -
Re: "All the old fellows stole our best ideas." Source?
I've seen the same idea credited to Mark Twain (for example in a museum label for an Ed Ruscha painting of the saying), and though it does sound Twainian to me, I didn't find the line in his autobiog…7
