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History of medial decoration?
I'm curious about the appearance of bumps or other decorations halfway up the stems of type. David Shields calls them medial or midstem decorations and notes them in the context of wood types in the …1 -
Re: How to assess what optical size(s) a given type style is intended for?
While you're analyzing stems and counters and grayness, it's the thickness of *hairlines* (in modulated text typefaces) that jump out to me when a "small" face is used too big, and especial…6 -
Can I turn a custom font into menu-board letters?
Has anyone encountered a means by which a particular digital font could be used to make plastic (or other) letters, of the kind that get pressed into menu boards? Or any similar means of using custom…1 -
Re: Who are the rising stars of the type world?
There's more information now posted about the Morisawa winners, where I found this bio:1 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
Both descending /f's look really out of place to me.1
