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- Time for a website for free font development?
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... important to have a model for this. FWIW, we've had an Adobe lawyer look over the Open Font License and give feedback. Overall it was ... this seems to happening to some degree allready with type design. Sometimes it is through 'kudos', people starting out can make a ...
Forum topic - raph - 6 Dec 2005 - 4:29pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- A Caslon to call home?
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... the Caslons I've seen so far. Carol Twombly's Caslon Pro (Adobe) looks good and is versatile, but it doesn't really sing on the page like ... will allow that. But as I become more interested in type and type-related design, I might involve myself in events like that. Being ...
Forum topic - Palatine - 23 Jun 2006 - 5:28pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- What are your pet peeves about common typefaces?
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... Since we are living in the world of scaleable type, one could argue that there is only one instance where a font will work ... fonts—especially when used with old-style numerals. (In Adobe Caslon, even the hyphen, the en dash, and the em dash look too high to ...
Forum topic - mwebert - 6 Sep 2006 - 3:11pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments
- 20 typefaces to start a designers career
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I am in the process of purchasing a number of type licences for a London University. The idea is to limit the number of ... MetaPlus (FontShop) Helvetica Neue (Adobe) Mrs. Eaves (Emigre) Gotham (Hoefler Type ... starting a design career, I would first procure the classics. a collection including full families of strong old style, ...
Forum topic - andywall - 9 Jun 2003 - 8:29am - 56 comments - 0 attachments
- The bouma of space craft
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... and opinions I'd like to offer. I think what Adobe is doing is slowly recovering from the loss of optical scaling in the ... you into. Comparison should also be made at a variety of type sizes. It is not necessary to go to the trouble of illustrating every ...
Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 1:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments
- Serif face revived/inspired from early Aldus/Griffo work...
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... too literal. (Are there surviving examples of the actual type used? Are they accessible? What other sources should I be looking into?) ... has the same colour density feeling! It is possible. Ok, Adobe made some progresses in that direction but why are there forms always so ...
Forum topic - matthew_desmond - 10 Feb 2007 - 9:34pm - 58 comments - 0 attachments
- Licensing fonts for a design school
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... or fonts with ‘expert sets’, etc. we do have a few Adobe Pro fonts) for fine typographic work. Does anyone here have ... dafont.com and elsewhere (Eduardo Recife of Misprinted Type fame is apparently a local hero) out of the folders where we keep the ... ;^) Our (Adobe’s) “Type Our (Adobe's) "Type Classics for Learning" package is $100 for the first seat, and $50/person after ...
Forum topic - Keith Tam - 23 Apr 2007 - 8:42pm - 17 comments - 0 attachments
- To buy or not to buy? (Adobe Type Library)
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I recently bought the Adobe Type Collection, OpenType Edition from Monotype Imaging here for $3999, ... Did I make a bad move by purchasing a large collection of classics but not so much on the fresh, distinctive, contemporary side? Or did I ...
Forum topic - lapiak - 8 Nov 2006 - 10:23pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- should a logo have only have 1 typeface or is it ok to have 2 aslong as it looks right
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... requests for free font sites. some of the big collections (adobe, fontshop...) are quite easy to come by, but newer faces from smaller ... fonts instead of just designing; this semester I'm in a type class with an instructor who handed us all a disc with twenty fonts on it, ...
Forum topic - missgiggles - 29 Oct 2006 - 1:17pm - 39 comments - 0 attachments
- Who should pay for the fonts... client, designer, or both?
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... about the whole "who-ought-to-pay-for-a-freelancer's-type-library" thing... On the one hand, in the past I've built purchasing a ... you use money a client pays you in fees to upgrade to the Adobe CS 2 suite, should you give the client those programs once the project is ...
Forum topic - mwebert - 8 Sep 2006 - 3:33am - 23 comments - 0 attachments
