The website looks pretty great on a mobile device. A problem Andreas noted – having to scroll down on the font landing page to see the banners provided by the type designer – does not happen on mobil… (View Post)
Some time ago, I seem to recall Nick Sherman suggesting that numbers be referred to as “numerals” rather than figures. That was a good idea, as even in English a figure can be a thing that is not a n… (View Post)
Yes, I think that there must be something to your suggestion about the one-story /g feeling more “familiar,” since Fraktur versions of /g always look that way. People seemed to have been quite happy… (View Post)
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, several of the sans serif typefaces sold in Germany were imported by German foundries from British ones, and/or exact copies were made illicitly via electroplati… (View Post)
If the fonts were illegitimate copies of Monotype’s products, Monotype would not allow them to be sold on MyFonts.com. The terms by which many pre-digital fonts were digitized in the mid-1990s gave o… (View Post)