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Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
When typesetting machines were delivered to customers, they always had to include at least one font, or they would have been useless. At ATypI Dublin, Robin Nicholas told me that – back in the 1960s …7 -
Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
Recuttings are possible, but the term “recutting” can only be applied to, well, recuttings of individual type sizes. There are real Garamond matrices in at least two European collections. One could, …3 -
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
