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Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
I’d say you might be both right. Most of Tschichold’s writing was pedagogic. Elementar Typographie and especially Die Neue Typographie were written for typesetters at work in printing houses. While t…3 -
Re: Em Alignments and Vertical Space?
I cannot make a statement about how the contemporary practice of leading type came about. I just don’t know. My first look would be to how compositors set texts with photo-type systems though (which…1 -
Re: Quality; or, What Makes a Font Great?
This bothers me. Bernhard Antiqua and Futura were produced by large typefoundries that had been making type for decades. They had skilled punchcutters who could interpret Lucian Bernhard and Paul Re…17 -
Re: Extend language support?
I went to a new Vietnamese restaurant in a run-down Berlin suburb a few weeks ago. When I went up to the counter to pay for dinner, the kitchen worker ran up my bill on the restaurant’s touch-pad cas…4 -
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
