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Re: Reviving French classics from the later Lead Age
Thanks for this interesting post. French types of the 19th century haven’t been ignored entirely: Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger recently collaborated on a family of types called Empirica, wh…4 -
Re: Which version/national cut of Times (New Roman)?
This is an example of phototypesetting, and a rather good one at that. You can tell by the softness of the imaging, which was output onto photosensitive paper from a film matrix. I suspect it is the …2 -
Re: Haultin's Augustine
Not only is this excellent work (bravo!), I think it sets an important example: that designing a type for small text by beginning with a small model, rather than scaling down a larger one, yields res…1 -
Re: List of glyphs that remain upright in italics
I agree with André. The tradition in metal typefounding was to make a set of mathematical symbols and operators in each size, in a single weight, to be used with any font. These included parentheses,…5 -
Re: Inspiration for Times New Roman
This is ignorant nonsense, written by someone whose only knowledge of serif roman letters would appear to be Times New Roman.6
