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Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
We used to have ATypI until the organization was moved to the US and had its remaining teeth pulled. From a legal point of view, we have thus become makers of products rather than people who design …3 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
The issue with the antitrust laws making in virtually impossible for independent type designers to effectively unite may be true for the US, it is not necessarily so in European countries.1 -
Re: Is gj an issue for everyone?
Dutch uses compound words as well. Also we use -je the same way als the Germans, Austrians and German-speaking Swiss use -li or -chen to indicate a ‘smaller version’ of something. So ‘heg’ and ‘haag’…2 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
Stephen, I think that what you refer to as Futura (Linotype) is in fact (Adobe/Linotype). As far as I recall the first families that were released after the ‘LaserWriter 35’ were a kind of joint eff…2 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
Yes, Linotype subcontracted URW to digitize their typefaces, they also bought digital data at URW, notably the ITC typefaces that URW digitizer, interpolated and mastered for ITC as from 1985 to the…1
