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Re: NYT: Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
In privileging classicist style over (putative) legibility/readability, Rubio is following the practice identified by Walter Benjamin, “Fascism is the aestheticization of politics.”3 -
Re: Who will attend ATypI Stanford (May 27-30)
Gotta fill up those “data centers.” Doing business with US corporations is getting more complicated (and onerous), with all the compliance requirements. Ironically, many of these are legacy DEI requi…2 -
Re: Glare of white 100% backgrounds and how it affects fonts
I reduce the brightness of my screen.2 -
Re: Helvetica Semi-Mono (?)
Yes, that’s what I mentioned above. It’s especially useful for double-m; it works because you never get three /m’s in a row, and the adjacent letters are usually vowels.2 -
Re: Tips for Building a Thin Master from an Existing Black Weight
I would say that the most important relationship is between Regular and Bold. After I have decided that a particular interpolation “looks like Regular (or Bold),” I adjust its width, if necessary, so…1
