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When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
There's a period charm to typefaces with intentionally high middles of letters like /B/E/F/H/K/S. Sometimes A/P/R join in, or sometimes they instead have intentionally low middles. /M and /W and…6 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
Thanks Florian. That's in the neighborhood of the J-like figures on this Venetian clock, pictured at the Wikipedia page for "1".3 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
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Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
You know what though? All four of those have apt and marketable names that seem to pass <https://namecheck.fontdata.com/>! Maybe after all our handwringing about AI taking our font designing jo…2 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
Interesting that the A in the uppercase line is consistently more prominent, as if it’s a stressed initial in a piece of lettering. And that the typeface name is in letters that do not correspond to …3
