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New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... method for installing/using fonts? I recently bought one of their new fonts since they converted their entire library over to OpenType ... "Yeah, we had no budget for type, so I just traced the letters from the site." (Abbreviated the story, but that's the gist of it.) ...

Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... reading Bringhurst and I came across his discussion of sloped romans and italics (p. 56-59). This triggered a series of ... It can be beneficial in mathematical texts, since slanted letters are distinguishable from the italic letters in math formulas. The ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

Advice please: on useful old books to add to Typophile's library

... http://typophile.com/node/33855 Called "A selection of types from six centuries in use at the office of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen at ... find. Walter Tracy listed this in his resources in Letters of Credit , which is how I got turned on to it. -- Kent. ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 30 May 2007 - 1:24pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments

Fonts that resemble Klim's feijoa?

... Fabulous. Congratulations on what I'm sure is the first of many great type faces to come. Great name, nice touch with Great ... they look fine to me. And Kris has a gift for beautiful letters, in evidence here, which is a great plus. Cheers guys. Like I ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 4 Dec 2006 - 9:07am - 75 comments - 0 attachments

Books

Indices : Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate ... Alphabet: The history, evolution & design of the letters we use today -Haley, Allan, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1995 ... Lettering and Alphabets -Cavanagh Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design -Tracy, Walter. David R. Godine, Publisher, ...

Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments

Faithful revivals from early printed pages

... to spend next academic year producing a faithful revival of Griffo's last roman in its 1499 state - the font, in adulterated form, of ... with the relatively limited variation of Caslon's printed letters than it would for the mess of an Aldine page. So I've written a ...

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

Quality of a free font

... it through some laser prints. I'm thinking in terms of a font for long academic texts (humanities). I would also pay for a font, ... small sample above, the bowl of the "a" doesn't fit other letters, the top & terminal of the "f" doesn't know where it is going, the ...

Forum topic - Typical - 4 May 2007 - 11:36pm - 54 comments - 1 attachment

Haas Unica research

... Scangraphic, but not how the rights were acquired or any of that info. Then I get to E+F buying the Scangraphic catalog, but due to ... for a logotype I am working on. Because I drew up 16 letters, I thought I would go the whole way. This was good as it makes to ...

Forum topic - Corey Holms - 7 Mar 2006 - 5:18pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

Helvetica vs. Univers

I'm pro- Helvetica and have quite a bit of experience using it, and I haven't used Univers much. But lately ... sanitised for modern consumption. It's very monoline, the letters are very unified in shape and width. Univers takes the model and ...

Forum topic - BrooklynRob - 27 Jan 2010 - 3:47pm - 53 comments - 0 attachments

Unique+Dynamic Arabic Font / Unik+Dinamik Naskh

... to highlight the Smart, Attractive + Space-saving Features of the Arabic Script first. Needless to say, the Arabic letter Ha has 4 ... letter coming before. That's right: Virtually, Arabic letters Change shape —Tails not heads— in such a way that they: 1. join ...

Forum topic - AzizMostafa - 13 Sep 2010 - 3:29am - 82 comments - 1 attachment