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Re: Does that “y” exist?
German typefoundries agreed to introduce a standard baseline (die Deutsche Normal-Schriftline) in 1905. This was based on the standard baseline instituted by the Genzsch & Heyse typefoundry in H…5 -
Re: Stephen Fry re-invents printing with movable type
In many of the histories of printing and typography written by western authors during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was common to include a chapter about prior inventions and conce…4 -
Re: Punchcutting: Literature
Hello David! Thank you for all of the research you have compiled on your website. I learned about your site a few years ago, from Stephen Coles. There are a few German-language articles published in …1 -
Re: Naming font modifications
+1 for Nameoffont_Nameofclient (with a space or underscore, etc.). I’ve been told by a lawyer for a company I used to work woth that, if Nameoffont is a registered trademark, then putting anything ne…3 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Picking up an idea of Nixon’s, whenever I see someone state that “X is the new Y,” I place all of my bets on Y. In 20 years – and in 100 years, too – I think it is a pretty safe bet to say that Bold …4
