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Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
Helvetica had fallen out of fashion for a period in the 1970s, though, to the degree that when Neville Brody used it for The Face in the early 1980s it was seen as something of a revival.1 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
They were standard fonts in the first Apple LaserWriter printer in the mid-1980s, which led to pretty much every operating system adopting them—or metrics-compatible clones—as core fonts.4 -
Re: Draw & Digitize Workshop
Depending how curves are configured and how existing points are placed, algorithmically adding extrema points can cause kinks or other problems. Much better for the human font maker to take control o…3 -
Re: Draw & Digitize Workshop
Which rasterisers? :) I would be cautious about TrueType renderers calculating bounding boxes and sidebearing distances when extrema lack on-curve points. As recently as the ISO OFF meeting last mont…2 -
Re: Just curious... do you enjoy drawing the thin or black masters more?
I’m going to say neither. I most enjoy designing whatever I think is going to be most useful, which is generally the middle-range weights. I can see the attraction of the fad for pushing every type d…6
