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... Aboutype Abrams Legacy Acmefonts Adagio Type Foundry Addict Inc. Adobe , Adobe Systems , Adobe Type ... Grafotechna Graham Type Foundry Great Western Greater Albion Typefounders G-Type H ...
Wiki - Characters - 11 Dec 2011 - 4:57pm - 0 comments
- Typeface classification
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... read an interesting piece last week on different views on type categories. Especially when it comes to Humanists and sans serifs. ... If I classify type at all, I tend to employ (western) art historical classifications -- e.g. renaissance, mannerist, ...
Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments
- 20 most important type designers of all time
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I'm trying to compile a list of the 20 most important type designers of all time. Which one would they be? I know this is personal, ... And did anyone mention Menhart? The list isn't merely for western europeans is it? How many type designers have been commissioned to ...
Forum topic - Brown Fox - 8 Jan 2007 - 10:25am - 72 comments - 0 attachments
- Typography trends and predictions for 2007
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... much of substance will happen in 2007, as designers across western civilization keep fiddling with trendy stuff in an attempt to avoid ... would add that "JobsType" would be followed by a competing type format springing out of a deal between type designers in northern Canada, ...
Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 31 Dec 2006 - 11:09am - 52 comments - 0 attachments
- PDF font extraction
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... me, when I implored someone to "flatten" their pdf so the type would be a graphic and not a font! (And therefore, impossible to extract.) ... fonts from PDFs like this *is* illegal in the USA and most western European countries. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, and you should talk to ...
Forum topic - Nick Cooke - 11 Jun 2007 - 1:03am - 97 comments - 0 attachments
- OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?
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... problems that occasions. I imagine people who have used type differently may feel otherwise. When we first started using PostScript ... It is a matter of preference and convention that in the Western markets, we put italic glyphs into separate fonts from upright glyphs, ...
Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- Quality of a free font
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... & slow to come. I, for one, rejoiced at PostScript Type 1 fonts. Yes, they printed too thin, esp. with direct-to-plate offset ... "show restraint with personal attacks" business is pure Western formalistic scapegoating, which of course fits in predictably with your ...
Forum topic - Typical - 4 May 2007 - 11:36pm - 54 comments - 1 attachment
- Unique+Dynamic Arabic Font / Unik+Dinamik Naskh
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... Lack of Capital, Lack of indepth Knowledge of Open-Type Tech and more discouraging is the Web that has rendered Copyrights ... of the world market. Here's the variety for you: in Western Europe and the US* people buy fonts, in the rest of the world they ...
Forum topic - AzizMostafa - 13 Sep 2010 - 3:29am - 82 comments - 1 attachment
- Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces
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... iron into the fire. And I was thinking that the ideal type of place to do that would be "The History of Yiddish" or ... out-there designs. Blackletter is used as a signifier of Western exoticism, Victorian-era fetishization of childhood (cf. ref. ...
Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments
- Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing
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... that used the glyphs developed by Renner and the Bauer Foundry in the period up to the Summer of 1925, and had hoped to use that for ... Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing, shown by the examples Syntax and Rialto DF". ... done was to make Germany more solidly a part of modern western European culture. I believe that any internationalist effects of ...
Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments
