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Time for a website for free font development?

... to buy fonts if they find no free font that meets their needs, with an emphasis on independent foundries. Note that this philosophy is ... available besides Computer Modern, a fairly poor face by typography standards. There are also a number of free GUI page layout ...

Forum topic - raph - 6 Dec 2005 - 4:29pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments

New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... you might have had in place to manage fonts for your own needs. - As mentioned, the LHF fonts can't be activated individually. It's ... line, pick up tons of illegal fonts -- and have a better typography library than Photolettering did in 1989! Probably every typographer ...

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

"Boston" Numerals?

In De Vinne's "The Practice of Typography: Plain Printing Types", there's a sample of a face that's intriguing ... going to be any geographic reference, it really needs to be Scotland: both Austin and Phemister were Scottish (although the ... be separated, hence my pet peeve. My hand has been out of typography for a long time, and I'm mostly exposed to the ...

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

What are you listening to?

... my own work . Now I'm really lost between music and typography. Ooh, Oranger! I was Ooh, Oranger! I was introduced to them a ... on that long list. Maybe I should see if the Smithsonian needs any more fossils. Just got through a great Just got through a ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments

The MODERN BLACKLETTER

... reading is not easy and flowing. there is a cavity that needs to be filled with a good modest and simple yet elegant blackletter. one ... and readability we just don't use it. After all typography is to be read and understood and such letterforms don't help it ...

Forum topic - Hannah - 26 May 2006 - 9:52pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... press) edition of Gill's An essay on typography was set entirely in Joanna's italic (which was once called ... still robust and capable of holding its position in the typography of the future." And so it has. Jon > ... are themselves flawed. Most of all, I think what needs to be admitted is that slant is in fact the primary axis of ...

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

An amusing exercise

... form works really nicely across a range of styles. Someone needs to use this in some books or magazines, so we can justify a proposal to ... Hope you'll enjoy & even if my culture in modern typography is poor, I truly appreciate letterworks. Thanks for reading. ...

Forum topic - cerulean - 19 Nov 2005 - 12:31pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments

Typeface classification

... I don't think there is anything critical enough in typography that compels us to all use the same classification system: if there ... comprehensible) and precise. Who needs desconstuctive gobbelygook? The only problem I have with systems ...

Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Famous Quotes from Type Designers

... to. My guess, for what it's worth. ƒ “Typography has one plain "Typography has one plain duty before it and that ... must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments

Commercial & Custom Pricing

... quantifiable as designing and hinting, and the quote needs to be buffered so that clients can request additional glyphs at the last ... work is not Pricing of work is not something unique to typography. Every industry has one or more accepted ways of doing things, but ...

Forum topic - hrant - 8 Mar 2007 - 1:02pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments