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"Boston" Numerals?

... & Co., and was probably made at the end of the 19th century. This makes it the earliest "true" hubrid numeral scheme I've ... them to tabular width and I'm prepared to do that if FB ever gets a request. -- K. Oh, I see that Stephen edited ...

Forum topic - hrant - 6 Dec 2006 - 10:55am - 46 comments - 0 attachments

Good light, circular font

... weights of these: Futura Neutraface FB Nobel DTL Nobel Avenir (with the only Q better than Vanity ... Grotesk Drescher Grotesk Metro 20th Century Gotham Proxima Sans Mostra Relay I hope ...

Forum topic - robsayshowdy - 22 Apr 2004 - 2:04pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Faithful revivals from early printed pages

... dynamic and contextual to boot; there's no way a 21st century Armo is going to get inside an 18th century Brit's head (at least not ... H&JF’s Mercury “grades”. First applied by FB (and that's where TFJ probably got the idea) it should be noted. Although ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments

The best fonts you can't have...

... http://www.guggenheim.org/ it's similar to FB Nobel which I can't have either because I can't afford it. Patty> I ... before... great post! Umm... it reminds me if Stymie and Century had a baby, Archer would be it. It also reminds me of: ...

Forum topic - SuperUltraFabulous - 24 May 2006 - 2:30pm - 97 comments - 0 attachments

Matching Sans & Serif faces for a magazine

... the body face - and it's certainly complete. And maybe FB Amplitude for the titling - or maybe something by Storm. hhp ... favorites (I know I'm quite fond of using 20th Century from Monotype), but I was hoping (and recieved) for a few ...

Forum topic - seanglenn - 21 Nov 2003 - 2:18pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments

Critiques of the OpenType format?

... anyone else outside of Microsoft had the right to VOLT, FB made the right stuff available in fonts for customers who wanted future OT ... brought into the age of metal-type at the turn of the 20th century''. In my own opinion, there has been very little that comes out of ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments

Tierra Nueva - new font inspired by old spanish map - OUT NOW :)

... oe: tilt the bar. The ligs are cool. For the "fb"/"ffb" though I might leave the bar unconnected to the stem of the "b". ... font? I'm looking for something representative of 14-16th century Spain. just a short update: I am just a short update: I am ...

Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 25 Jul 2010 - 1:41pm - 72 comments - 2 attachments

Latin American typefaces

... define as such, as is the case for example of Cheltenham, Century, News Gothic, Goudy in North America? Thanks Patricia ... much salsa" by the AD of Time Mag.), Giza, Rhode and now FB Titling Gothic are all working hard down there. In addition, Cyrus' faces, ...

Forum topic - patty - 21 Jun 2005 - 12:49pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

20 typefaces to start a designers career

... Gotham (Hoefler Type Foundry) 20th Century (Monotype) Base (Emigre) Agency (Font ... etc. Personally, I prefer Monotype's 20th Century to Futura in every respect. I'd recommend that over Futura any day. ... ITC Charter FF Meta PMN Caecilia Adobe Caslon Pro FB Miller Adobe Syntax ITC Franklin Gothic Bitstream Futura Monotype ...

Forum topic - andywall - 9 Jun 2003 - 8:29am - 56 comments - 0 attachments

Corrections or for the sake of style_?

... of "style", pretty much abandoning their original intent; FB Amplitude being the best example of that (and FF Bradlo a much earlier such ... caused the invention of those eighteenth/nineteenth century tapered lines, that might compensate for this, which only later on ...

Forum topic - satya - 18 Nov 2007 - 1:23pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments