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Re: Hoefler&Co sold to Monotype
Alas, I haven’t. But employees’ personal views were rarely recorded in those days. Anecdotally, I only heard one story (from the other side of an acquisition) which happened more recently than the me…3 -
Re: Nebiolo?
Depending on what the intellectual property is, you may have different answers. I don’t think that any European country’s design patents last so long that typefaces Nebiolo would have registered are …2 -
Re: Renaissance Font Reproduction for Historical Music Notation Software
My comment is a little off-topic, but Fleischmann did not make musical notation type for Breitkopf. Rather, Breitkopf’s printing house included one of the larger German typefoundries of its time. Br…2 -
Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
Oh, @"Claudio Piccinini", yes! It is documented that the lowercase letters of Römische Antiqua were drawn by Heinz König. I don’t recall of the top of my head when Genzsch & Heyse first…1 -
Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
The Römische Antiqua capitals are said (by Genzsch & Heyse in their own publications) to have been inspired by letters that Genzsch & Heyse’s director Emil Julius Genzsch saw on a visit to th…4
