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Re: Sunsetting Fonts.com etc.
Are you sure about that? It looks like you can buy it on MyFonts.com.3 -
Re: Print shop to the Stars. (Adam Savage again)
Wow, thanks for sharing this, @"John J. Blair". One of the things mentioned supports a theory I have about typographic props in the nineties and 2000s. As some of you may know, I wrote an a…8 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
Something to keep in mind is that while there are about half a million graphic designers worldwide, the number of people who earn money doing type design is probably around 5,000, and only a fraction…6 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Interesting example, Nick. The italic tabular figures match the width of the roman figures, but they didn't align the decimal points or display the same number of digits after the decimal. Weird.1 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Not changing the /a and /g in the italic was the usual practice with sans serif italics until the last twenty or thirty years. There are examples of serif faces, mostly around 1900, that did this, su…2
