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- The bouma of space craft
... doesn't exist. Bill, stop worrying about archaic, non-linguistic control strings, and optimizing fonts for one point ... and "Texture" are both derived from the Latin "tactare" -- to touch. So the idea is well established that there ...
Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments
- Chinese Fonts & Adobe Software
... and marries well stylistically and historically with the latin alphabet I have chosen. The job is setting film title credits, the key ... trick was to find a balance, keeping a general primitive, archaic feel. I designed a custom-lettered wordmark first, the selection of the ...
Forum topic - breck - 11 Apr 2006 - 1:43pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- "I found a font" - attestable?
... and American dictionaries WITHOUT the caveat “dated, archaic, etc.” and usually defined as “to melt lead and pour into a ... Middle English : from Old French fonder , from Latin fundare , from fundus ‘bottom, base.’ found 3 ...
Forum topic - Uli - 26 Feb 2006 - 6:44am - 44 comments - 0 attachments
- Non-common Greek Caps?
... In typographic situations where both Greek and Latin text appear together, harmony may be necessary, but if that can be ... appreciated in Greece, because its looseness made it look archaic. To me, the issue is not that the Greek alphabet is naturally less ...
Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 24 Oct 2005 - 10:46am - 74 comments - 0 attachments
- Adapting archaic Greek glyphs
... Beyond the usual distortions brought about by my latin-alphabet prejudices, it's not surprising that the most challenging shapes for me have been several archaic letters used mostly in academic contexts and for formal numeration ...
Forum topic - bsleeper - 18 Mar 2005 - 1:37pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- Best design schools around the world
... the latter is better for theoretical groundwork and non-Latin design. As you might be able to tell, I personally lean more towards ... merely an afterthought. Sometimes methods become archaic and are not practical by today’s standards. This is something ...
Forum topic - cursusductus - 25 Jul 2005 - 9:29am - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- apostrophes really necessary?
... language naturally evolves over time, new words are added, archaic ones are forgotten, meaning shift, foreign vocabulary becomes ... the old money and the gold rush. French, from Late Latin apostrophus, from Greek apostrophos, from apostrephein, to turn away : ...
Forum topic - vinceconnare - 21 Jun 2005 - 7:11am - 48 comments - 0 attachments
