Nick Shinn · President

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Admin James Puckett
  • Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?

    Although it might seem that in placing lower case accents above the cap line they’ve lost their moorings and are floating away, bear in mind that in running text there will be cap accents at the same…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    “…the instantiation of the idea is where intellectual property subsists.” Generating design space does not instantiate glyphs. Therefore, if a font varies between Condensed and Extended, nothing in b…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    John, you need to un-contradict yourself about what goes on in uninstantiated design space. First you stated that it is not legally the responsibility of the typeface designer, now you say that the t…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    There is also an “uninstantiated” kind of typeface, a Platonic ideal which exists in the ether of the collective conscious. We all know what “Bodoni” or “Garamond” look like and can draw those from m…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    This philosophical debate could go on a while, so I’d like to try and explain my theory with an illustration. Three type genres which may be interpolated between, with axes of contrast and serif thic…
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