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Time for a website for free font development?

... spindly and anemic like they do in almost all other math systems. I'd love to see more optically scaled fonts available besides Computer ... 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

New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... 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 ... "Open Type" fonts could be installed on various operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, etc). At that time in mid-1990, the following was ...

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

Foundries

... Aboutype Abrams Legacy Acmefonts Adagio Type Foundry Addict Inc. Adobe , Adobe Systems , Adobe Type Aerotype Agfa Compugraphic Alias ...

Wiki - Characters - 11 Dec 2011 - 4:57pm - 0 comments

HTF Didot vs. Linotype Didot

... is less like having a typeface, more like having an entire type library. If you don't have a problem with the fundamental design, ... about Fournier's cataloguing of non-Latin writing systems in his Manual*, and likened it to Diderot's project. ...

Forum topic - Mark Foster - 6 Apr 2005 - 1:05pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments

Typeface classification

... read an interesting piece last week on different views on type categories. Especially when it comes to Humanists and sans serifs. ... out how you want to think about type. Classification systems, as Borges' classification of animals taught us, are arbitrary ...

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

Famous Quotes from Type Designers

... Typophiles, what are your favorite quotes from famous type designers. Can't tell you why, it is a surprise. However, we could also ... printing: December 1992 Copyright © 1993 Adobe Systems On the first page of text, Erik added a sidebar to explain his use ...

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

Five Steps to Font Freedom

... and proposes some ideas on propagating them such that web type would be 'liberated'. The bullet points are: 1. Convince the Font ... by the large corporate manufacturers of hardware and systems software who have billions of dollars at stake. If you bought a ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 9 Mar 2006 - 7:51am - 51 comments - 0 attachments

Books

... wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works of three ... Michael S. ed. Oak Knoll Press, 1996 Grid Systems In Graphic Design Gutenberg, Johann, and his Bible: A ...

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

Typography trends and predictions for 2007

... would add that "JobsType" would be followed by a competing type format springing out of a deal between type designers in northern Canada, ... Given Microsoft's track record outside of operating systems and productivity software, it makes a very little sense to me. ...

Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 31 Dec 2006 - 11:09am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

Faithful revivals from early printed pages

... Bodoni. The variety of serif treatment in Incunabula type accomodates the fact that had they been made the same, they would have ... http://levien.com/type/avg.tar.gz It's for Unixy systems, but it shouldn't be too hard to get running on OS X, and a ...

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