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- Time for a website for free font development?
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... It would emphasize quality, especially aspiring font designers who want to learn to do better work. It would foster fine-grained ... this seems to happening to some degree allready with type design. Sometimes it is through 'kudos', people starting out can make a ...
Forum topic - raph - 6 Dec 2005 - 4:29pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- Type Thievery
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... adaptations without written permission from the Shinn Type Foundry; this means (a) you may not make customized versions of the ... I would also like to know why it is illegal... Don't type designers ever redraw or trace type in order to make adaptations of it? Didn't ...
Forum topic - novice - 25 Oct 2005 - 8:56am - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme
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... intra-office piracy in companies without technically adept designers. I’m all for doing I'm all for doing everything we can to ... I use, who still won't get Quark 7, doesn't do Open Type - so to hand my work over to a professional - would be difficult. Would ...
Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments
- "Boston" Numerals?
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... since it seems de Groot did it first (among living designers). * Back around 1800. In fact, he (or maybe ... people, since there is already a Scotch classification of type, many examples of which do not include this kind of figure. I ...
Forum topic - hrant - 6 Dec 2006 - 10:55am - 46 comments - 0 attachments
- Morris Fuller Benton
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Indices : Designers : Morris Fuller Benton Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 – June 30, 1948) was born into the type business. His father, Linn Boyd Benton , was a type-founder and the inventor of the matrix-cutting machine, which ...
Wiki - William Berkson - 1 Feb 2012 - 9:03am - 0 comments
- The MODERN BLACKLETTER
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... a copy of You should pick up a copy of Blackletter: Type and National Identity by Paul Shaw and Peter Bain as I think it'd ... positive lights of blackletter in an inspiring way for designers to use (one idea could be like a handbook). Will post something ...
Forum topic - Hannah - 26 May 2006 - 9:52pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments
- Font Starter Packs
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... collections, usually on CD. Of interest to students and designers looking to begin building a professional typeface collection. Canada Type Collection 01 Includes Adore, Blackhaus, Coffe Script, Dominique, ...
Wiki - aluminum - 21 Dec 2011 - 9:24am - 0 comments
- PLEASE READ: Typophile Forum Posting Guidelines
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... Post threads in the appropriate forum: Looking for type advice for a specific project, or searching for a certain style of ... type or those of us who support the work of talented type designers. By the same token, please do not post links to sites which offer ...
Forum topic - paul d hunt - 18 Dec 2011 - 11:59pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Sloped Roman
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... would fly. I'd bet if you dug deep enough you'd find many designers trying there hand at a sloped roman in that day. *I'll go diggin ... released with a sloped roman!? Then, or later, a new type was made, which was true italic in nature, and this was named Cursive. The ...
Forum topic - canus - 9 Dec 2006 - 9:11am - 19 comments - 0 attachments
- Sloped roman and italic in the same family
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... to be wrong in principle, but they discussed a script type for the Romulus family, and out of this came Van Krimpen's exquisite ... italic appears in Carter's Twentieth Century Type Designers on p. 69. With regard to Gill's work on Perpetua and its ...
Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments
