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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
My favourite old documentary word is “scrolling”. A venerable noun cleverly rehabilitated as a verb, quite apropos. I’m also rather fond of “leading”, which some practical folk have tried to replace …5 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
There is a small market for layered fonts, which have been available for 25+ years. So, not much market-driven demand for huge change there. Colour will never be the new bold. When one uses colour fo…2 -
Re: Q: "Moderately modern, but not futurist, book jacket design by Morrison"?
Indeed, he was adopting a style of design he felt was appropriate to the content. It does look a bit forced, and it’s hard to know whether there is an element of parody or not, as few British or Amer…2 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Soft Hyphen = Discretionary Hyphen. In InDesign: <Type> <Insert Special Character> <Hyphens> <Discretionary Hyphen> When you insert it in a word, it looks like nothing happens…2 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
I was really disappointed when MyFonts stopped showing the Contextual Alternates feature in its type tester. MyFonts is my main distributor, and I had invested a lot of time in developing typefaces w…3
