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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 -
Re: Grotesk / Grotesque
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…7 -
Re: Noveo Sans by Fontsite? (A variation or copy of Neuzit Grotesk)
British design patents were introduced around the time the first Clarendon typeface was released. It received a design patent, which lasted for three years. At the time, there was no other protection…3 -
Re: Noveo Sans by Fontsite? (A variation or copy of Neuzit Grotesk)
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…5 -
Re: How many fonts are there?
I don’t know … I think that the ration of 4 fonts to 1 family is too low. My numbers might be a little fuzzy, but from 2004–2008, I did a lot of data entry for Linotype … adding fonts into the datab…1
