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Re: Modular type: your help finding good examples needed
Also the letter-drawing stencils produced by W.A. Dwigging, and the ones the Fred Smeijers reproduces in Type now: A manifesto plus works so far.1 -
Re: Modular type: your help finding good examples needed
What about textura as a script? Is its modularity too far afield, because it isn’t a specific typeface? Perhaps the diagrams that Albrecht Dürer produced for lowercase textura letters could come some…1 -
Re: Private Label
Sure, a thing can and do change over time. What begins as a private label could later become an independent foundry (distributing the fonts of multiple designers, exclusively through its own website …1 -
Re: Private Label
I think that the term “private” is well used here. If I recall correctly, Jonathan’s first typefaces were published by Emigre (at that time, _the_ exciting and independent font house). Then he starte…4 -
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
