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- "Boston" Numerals?
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... are interesting, and seem very similar to the ones in ATF Garamond (which did however come a bit later), in that they're a ... 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
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... to make a readable text face - something not repeated by Garamond and the later tradition, and certainly not by Bodoni! Texture is ... 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...
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... http://www.guggenheim.org/ it's similar to FB Nobel which I can't have either because I can't afford it. Patty> I ... about a comparison of this with Adobe's Premier Pro Garamond? Antikva Margaret is in Antikva Margaret is in Rookledge, no ...
Forum topic - SuperUltraFabulous - 24 May 2006 - 2:30pm - 97 comments - 0 attachments
- Matching Sans & Serif faces for a magazine
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... if you have the nerve, or a more staid choice like a Garamond or Caslon. Fedra Sans/Serif Stone Sans/Serif ... the body face - and it's certainly complete. And maybe FB Amplitude for the titling - or maybe something by Storm. hhp ...
Forum topic - seanglenn - 21 Nov 2003 - 2:18pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments
- What are your pet peeves about common typefaces?
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... spaced in many fonts—for example, the ubiquitous Adobe Garamond Pro (the same goes for many of the kerning pairs, e.g. Ta To Te Tu). ... When designing Whitman Display, I was directed by FB to have the ring merge with the A. (Whitman text, on the other hand, has the ...
Forum topic - mwebert - 6 Sep 2006 - 3:11pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments
- Critiques of the OpenType format?
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... anyone else outside of Microsoft had the right to VOLT, FB made the right stuff available in fonts for customers who wanted future OT ... an intermediate master. This was first implemented in ITC Garamond MM for the w. An impeccable source who would probably prefer to ...
Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments
- Tierra Nueva - new font inspired by old spanish map - OUT NOW :)
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... 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". ... any other without problems. I've tried to look at Adobes Garamond Pro for that, but it's too complicated for me at the moment... ...
Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 25 Jul 2010 - 1:41pm - 72 comments - 2 attachments
- Unicode Ligatures
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... and want to add ffb ffh ffi ffk ffl fft fh fj fk fl ft sp fb fh fk. Can anyone advise on what Unicode Names I need to use. I was ... want, and leave them unencoded. For example, the glyph "fb" could be named "fb" (or, for wimsy, "halfback", my personal test for the ... too, where the fi liagture is too loose, as in Monotype Garamond. Another note: while it can be nice to have the f + ...
Forum topic - David Lawless - 28 Apr 2007 - 9:43am - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- 20 typefaces to start a designers career
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... Heartless. These are always loaded: Adobe Garamond Goudy the aforementioned Helvetica Neue Univers Futura ... 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_?
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... of "style", pretty much abandoning their original intent; FB Amplitude being the best example of that (and FF Bradlo a much earlier such ... traps would look totally out of place in something like Garamond #3, but totally harmonious in the work of John Downer*. Why? Because ...
Forum topic - satya - 18 Nov 2007 - 1:23pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments
