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Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
As far as I remember, almost all of the Linotype fonts mastered in the ’00s (and maybe even the ’10s) had a standardized cap height. Berthold’s phototype fonts had a standardized cap height and I be…4 -
Re: The existence of a letter foundry is at stake
As far as I know, the typefounders in the US are casting type with a Monotype-machine kind of alloy. Gerstenberg’s typefoundry casts types from automatic typecasters, with a foundry-type allow, which…13 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
When typesetting machines were delivered to customers, they always had to include at least one font, or they would have been useless. At ATypI Dublin, Robin Nicholas told me that – back in the 1960s …7 -
Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
Recuttings are possible, but the term “recutting” can only be applied to, well, recuttings of individual type sizes. There are real Garamond matrices in at least two European collections. One could, …3 -
Re: Grotesk / Grotesque
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…3
