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Re: "Helvetica Now" - "Monotype redesigns Helvetica for the digital age"
Right. AG was sold in the US by Continental Typefounders, who had a deal with Berthold over in Europe to do this, and the typeface was marketed as Standard. At least, that is how I remember the gist…4 -
Re: Never Mind Starling
Mike Parker’s article is an interesting read, but please, please, please read the rebuttal to it that was published afterwards: “Starling Burgess: No Type Designer.” http://www.fayit.eu/text/burgess_…7 -
Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
Note that, although all of the “Midollines” were cut in a range of sizes, and were often used to set small-sized text on business cards and the like, their makers never intended them to be used to se…7 -
Re: Help to fund the exhibition of Joh. Enschedé’s items
Everything Frank wrote, +1! While the 1908 original French edition from Charles Enschedé may be historically more significant than the 1978 English edition (because of its greater age, and because it…3 -
Re: Elongation of Hebrew letters at the end of the row
FiraGO, the extension of the Fira Sans project, includes “Justification Alternates” for Hebrew. (The orange-colored glyphs in this screenshot.)2
