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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: Online books & resources
Right. A moderator should delete those links. I can’t imagine that, if these were links to font files, they would be tolerated here.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: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
Yeah, I agree. Several historical narratives of the revivals of older types begin with Caslon in the 1840s, and while (as John points out) this is a different thing that what later founders and desig…1 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
@"Richard Fink" I have seen somewhere (here? elsewhere?) that you are in favor of type designers developing fonts for the web first, and the graphic arts market second. I believe you wrote …3
