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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 -
Re: Canned type shop options
This TypeDrawers post was encouraging, especially since it wasn't easy to find actual examples of some of the other solutions in use.1 -
Re: Canned type shop options
I'm in the middle of building a shop with Fontdue now. Haven't gone live so it'd be premature to give final judgments, but I would say: * There's a lot of cleverness in the setup and it really does t…4
