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Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
I haven’t signed the new contract, and don’t intend to. It’s sad, as MyFonts enabled my type business in the first place and was its mainstay for many years. But there is no loyalty in big business. …10 -
Re: Case sensitive forms
Usually, all the brackets, lining figures, questiondown and exclamdown, and guillemets. And the dashes, despite the fact that I think they look strange raised. But I don’t bother with an alternate bu…1 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
One measure of the ubiquity of Times: it was the default face of American pulp fiction in the mid-20th century. It could take an absurd amount of abuse and still function, rather like hard-boiled pri…3 -
Re: Neutral Typeface Ideas?
Adrian Frutiger’s methodology. And this from Vanity Fair magazine in the 1930s: the photo-composited movie star.3 -
Re: Just curious... do you enjoy drawing the thin or black masters more?
Black is a horrible chore, when it comes to figure variants and characters such as ampersand and Eszett—and that’s just Latin. A big problem is characters that don’t have a consistent angle of stress…2
