Dear Claire, in instances
In reply to Giving talk about type: Dear Claire, in instances like this you should put aside your passion and think what might interest your audience and not what interests you. Assuming your professor...
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In reply to Benton - Using WOFF webfonts: Sounds like a feature not a bug. ;-) hhp
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In reply to Giving talk about type: I would distinguish between typography as done by graphic designers and type design, and focus on typography. If you are speaking with visual aids (Powerpoint?), you...
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In reply to Research paper on Bodoni/transitional: Yes, because the sans emerged as an atavism—from the grotto, according to Mosley:...
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In reply to Numbers in name ok?: Bitstream has done it. For their fonts numbers served as codes, though. Numbers also indicate the weight of the font like in Jos Buivenga's Museo.
View ArticleCool. I can just see it now:
In reply to Electra vs. Parkinson Electra?: Cool. I can just see it now: "you have Gill Sans crossing Bembo, with Bodoni in the past & Archer in the future..." But what does it mean?!! Oh, the...
View ArticleGood point Nick. The cap A in
In reply to Typeface recommendations to pair with Goudy Sans: Good point Nick. The cap A in Goudy Sans is a bit rich for most layout uses, except perhaps the occasional drop cap. However, there are...
View ArticleIf Mr Despie is indeed
In reply to Fontsite/Softmaker: so what?: If Mr Despie is indeed autistic and obsessed with type, maybe there is some way to channel that obsession into something more interesting and useful to the...
View ArticleIt is something that has long
In reply to Numbers in name ok?: It is something that has long been advised against, but even back in the mid-90s we didn't run into actual problems with '1530 Garamond'. It is possible that there is...
View ArticleFYI here's that other one:
In reply to HTML5 based Font Designer - Glyphr Studio: FYI here's that other one: http://typophile.com/node/88181 Compare & contrast? hhp
View ArticleI think a text serif that
In reply to Typeface recommendations to pair with Goudy Sans: I think a text serif that would harmonize would be something with a hand modeled, humanist feeling, and some softness. Goudy Old Style will...
View ArticleSlow down. Tell us what the
In reply to New Logo Input Please: Slow down. Tell us what the name means, if anything. What part of this logo, to you, says 'hip'? As it is, it feels very literal, which isn't maybe the 'hip' you were...
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In reply to New Logo Input Please: Also, FWIW, the image you have isn't one of a beaker. That's actually a Erlenmeyer flask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask (yea, a technical nitpick and...
View ArticleJust saw
In reply to Does anybody really build faces like this anymore?: Just saw this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/undesign_studio/4973741928/in/set-721576249... Never seen that done with/to such a...
View ArticleThat’s post facto BS. A
In reply to Does anybody really build faces like this anymore?: That’s post facto BS. A veneer of promotional tech-porn. Microgramma is squircular in form, i.e. (super-) elliptical, not circle-based.
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