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- Critiques of the OpenType format?
... it has not worked for me or anyone I know. Beating a dead horse comes to mind. The only way these things will be put into a ... different than that relationship as it exists in European history. Although Islamic civilization was aware of printing technology before ...
Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments
- what is the stereotypical behavior and appearance of a designer?
... square-ish eyeglasses (I wouldn’t want to be caught dead wearing little round glasses and a black turtleneck) and I haven’t ... Speaking as if Design was a science. Referencing the history of design and and continually attempting to implement theory. - New ...
Forum topic - alchion - 27 Jul 2005 - 2:30pm - 128 comments - 0 attachments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
... designer’s mind, especially when he’s so dead. > contextual alternates in an OpenType font That cannot ... with models for which perhaps we do know the “punch history”. Yes, it’s error prone, but at least it’s a ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments
- Understated Typographers?
... a typographer can’t be a type designer? Given the history of graphic design, I think you might be grossly incorrectly. No, I ... similar in function to an axiom or an equation. Similarly, Dead History defines post-structuralism, and Beowolf defines random computer ...
Forum topic - wysong - 31 Mar 2006 - 10:36pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- First massive x-height?
... was the Well at least it was the typogods and not the Dead Sea Scroll :-) ChrisL “Does anyone know about “Does ... goodies or information on Soncino as a typographer? Your history of type is quite new-school: it’s Jannon you want to look up if ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:25am - 83 comments - 0 attachments
- Need a sample of text in many languages? Try this...
... citations from or translations of the Tibetan Book of the Dead to be offensive. Similarly, most of the population of the planet is not ... as the word ’schwa’. Our history is intertwined with the history of religions and religious texts. Type ...
Forum topic - dezcom - 2 Apr 2006 - 7:38pm - 66 comments - 0 attachments
- TYPO 13
... contents and intentions of Typo13: Herbert Spencer (dead), and Richard Southall (retired?). hhp For those ... articulate why and don’t know anything about the history of the particular type or its place in the typographic scheme of ...
Forum topic - Forrest L Norvell - 12 Mar 2005 - 4:47pm - 98 comments - 0 attachments
- (x) Serif / sans serif hybrid - Dead History {Stephen}
... Bodoni {Nick Cotrell} F.F.M.A - logo font › Dead History Dead History Thanks Stephan…. you are Thanks Stephan.... you are ...
Forum topic - scottpenwell - 8 Feb 2006 - 2:00pm - 7 comments - 1 attachment
- Frutiger and similar typefaces in Bringhurst's classification system
... sans? ‹ Books about type Questions about the history of typographyquestions about the history of typographyquestions about ... well established in typography, in relation to fonts like Dead History, Caustic Biomorph, and Carter’s Walker typeface. So it would ...
Forum topic - gabrielhl - 27 Jan 2006 - 10:38am - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- kerns, matrix justification, broadnib pen
I’m interested in typography history and started by reading some books. But I’ve met several questions ... since it is not really possible to strike the depth dead accurately. As a result the strike is made a couple of thousandths of an ...
Forum topic - Z.Y.L - 12 Dec 2005 - 1:39am - 4 comments - 0 attachments






