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- Famous Quotes from Type Designers
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... down version of what was said for letter-spacing all caps? frederick goudy said that "men who would letterspace lower case would ... at Linotype, I think out of Hauppauge, NY during the mid-to-late eighties. “This font didn’t take "This font didn't take ...
Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- Fonts that resemble Klim's feijoa?
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... have Roman, Italic, It will have Roman, Italic, Small Caps, Bold & Display cuts. All will have nice OT character sets, the ... "about 91% finished and should be ready for release by mid–late 2006". ;^) Hopefully by the end of the Hopefully by the end ...
Forum topic - Palatine - 4 Dec 2006 - 9:07am - 75 comments - 0 attachments
- OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?
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... put glyphs into a separate fonts or into one font is small caps. Some font developers choose to offer smallcap fonts as separate fonts ... a revised type family that we purchased originally in the mid 90s just to get the OpenType version. Much to my dismay, I found that all ...
Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- current Greek typographic trends?
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... or Oak Knoll. It is probably the best source through the mid 1990s. ChrisL On preferences, my guess is On preferences, my ... is the former's much lower regard for alignment. The Latin caps are made to fit (mostly) between two lines, and the Latin lc (mostly) ...
Forum topic - paul d hunt - 30 Apr 2007 - 10:24am - 63 comments - 0 attachments
- Perrin OT
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... fit with the other letters. Also, I know that the Italic caps are butt ugly, because I haven't been much interested in improving ... think of is "Théophile". Or maybe something related to mid/late-19th century France. * At least that design; there's actually a ...
Forum topic - nepenthe - 8 Nov 2004 - 8:37pm - 49 comments - 0 attachments
- Critiques of the OpenType format?
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... with including what used to be "Expert Sets" for small caps and oldstyle figures and stylistic alternates, ligatures, and contextual ... support the optical axis in MM fonts automatically (as in mid 1990s versions of MS Word). Another word for your dream format is Apple's ...
Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments
- Greek
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... takes me quite some time to go over. Fast forward to the mid/late nineties, when Adobe was working on Minion Pro , which — ... Discussion: Greek Alphabet Greek All Caps Greek OpenType Features Double-mapping Greek Glyphs? ...
Wiki - Thomas Phinney - 27 May 2010 - 10:43am - 0 comments
- The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)
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... and italic is just gorgeous. I have a specimen (mid 50s) of Steile Futura Fett from Bauer here, will post scans up later today ... height: I guess we're used to seeing ascenders rise above caps these days so it could make Steile feel a little more relevant, but I ...
Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments
- Yves reviews Fleischmann revivals
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... specific (droopy ball terminals, dart-like serifs on the caps, a very narrow italic, and those blobby serifs that imitate the look of ... that such a crime? He was ahead of his time -- by the mid 19th century, there were many decorated faces that had strange details, but ...
Forum topic - William Berkson - 28 Jun 2005 - 4:07pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments
- Akzidenz Grotesk roots
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... way or the other. Those earliest sans were Bold and Caps only, and appear to have been used mainly for contrast, in text work. The ... of meeting and studying with Wolfgang Weingart in the mid 80s. He told me about discovering a few old, dusty, forgotten job cases of ...
Forum topic - xurxo_insua - 1 May 2004 - 1:56pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments
