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Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
In common typographic parlance, there isn’t. The term revival, if you want to explain it to a layperson in a watertight manner, is really tough. It encompasses quite a lot of things. Nick mentions t…3 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
@"Richard Fink" I have seen somewhere (here? elsewhere?) that you are in favor of type designers developing fonts for the web first, and the graphic arts market second. I believe you wrote …3 -
Re: What is “Unger” as an adjective?
If I recall correctly, he assumes that many newspapers will condensed his typefaces by about 5%. And not just for certain lines here and there, but all the time, as part of their standard settings. H…2 -
Re: Fontdeck is retiring
Well, Webtype, Fonts.com, Typekit, and even Google are webfont-hosting services where the company running the service (Font Bureau, Monotype, Adobe, Google) each has some of its own IP on offer. Whil…7 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
To add to Florian’s list: House Industries’s Ed Interlock was released in 2004, if my memory and the Internet are correct, and it had more glyphs than Linotype’s Zapfino OT did.1
