Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: Carry on or stop?

    Who knows where the “technical” challenge will lead? Ed Benguiat, a phenomenal draftsman, drew/cut/painted stuff like this for PLINC, if I’m not mistaken; now the tools are quite different, but the c…
  • Re: Diversification Postmortem

    Bowdlerize! Haven’t come across that word in a long time. Spot on, in a thread discussing boycotting.
  • Re: Proportional vs. Tabular Numbers

    Nonetheless, it is unlikely that a display font would be used for tabular work. Similarly, given that tabular settings are a very small amount of the total of typesetting, surely it makes sense to ha…
  • Re: Revivals?

    I think there is enough “transformative” (in the copyright sense) work required by digitizing a font from a letterpress printing, to constitute an original design—provided that (a) the model is not o…
  • Re: Capital Spacing

    I never include this feature. I disagree with the premise of the feature tag definition, that “When capitals are used for words, they need more space between them for legibility and esthetics.”
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