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Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Castcraft was notorious in the sixties and seventies for pirating film fonts for headline setting machines, such as the Typositor. They would acquire a film fonts from franchisees of VGC (who also ma…5 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
The concept of an "ideal" typeface implies that there is only one thing we use typefaces for. The reason there are so many typefaces is because there are so many possible ways that typeface…6 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
I recently bought a copy of the book Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story, by Pamela Pfiffner (2003). It goes into a lot more detail than I've seen before about the relationship between …7 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
The character seems to be missing in the font used on TypeDrawers, so it depends on the fallback font your web browser uses. Looks okay in Safari.1 -
Re: Explanation of the Type Industry.
Well, that's certainly not their aim, which @"James Puckett" was suggesting.1
