... after. Opentype does such a much better job than TT or Type 1 in supporting large character sets that it is hard to resist. This is a ... DISPLAY, or for SCREEN AND PRINT, to the standards of even metal, with OT. I pointed this out several ways, including to say that I think ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments

... Hermann Zapf’s earlier text designs, perhaps even metal, but definitely pre-digital. Here’s a better isolation ... such as ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ. Odd..... (Type ID Board) ...

Forum topic - fabi - 19 Dec 2005 - 4:44am - 8 comments - 1 attachment

... starting to feel like InDesign is better with setting type these days, perhaps I need to finally break down and teach myself how to ... book plates and titling pages using a combination of hot metal point sizes and family weights. All in all it promoted the purchase of ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 30 Dec 2005 - 2:10pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments

... from the loss of optical scaling in the transition from metal to digital. You see that with their release of optically scaled families ... you into. Comparison should also be made at a variety of type sizes. It is not necessary to go to the trouble of illustrating every ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

... if I had a book like this. Thoughts? ‹ March Metal Type News Blackletter in Mexico › I saw it just the other day. I ...

Forum topic - dave bailey - 23 Feb 2006 - 10:02am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... When was your edition printed? If the book was set with metal type, who knows whether Monotype made a Greek Ehrhardt in metal? (I’ll ...

Forum topic - Percival Koehl - 30 Mar 2006 - 10:12pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Hi I’m a great lover of custom-made type. So no fonts, but handwriting painting cutting and whatever else you can ... have I think underware have something type made from metal and stone on their site too: www.underware.nl but being dutch ...

Forum topic - Job - 28 Mar 2006 - 8:51am - 12 comments - 0 attachments

... photography standards by doing exactly the same type of shots, I am a bit stuck here as well. I am not certain the concept is ... the joke. I HATE indie rock BTW, and love metal. I do however, have cravings for fried chicken and watermelon, but never ... bill. They wear relaxed clothes, often with a hiphop or metal flavour, have hair of every imaginable length and drive every kinda car ...

Forum topic - alchion - 27 Jul 2005 - 2:30pm - 128 comments - 0 attachments

A printing method where type, in the form of metal or wood letters, and optionally graphics are placed ...

Wiki - dberlow - 27 Jan 2008 - 4:30am - 0 comments

... some intersting articles on different sites dedicated to type and I’ve learned quite a lot but I feel there is still a website to ... that it’s done by hand) sort : a piece of metal type weight : the visual darkness or lightness of the strokes ...

Forum topic - sebsan - 19 Aug 2005 - 5:24am - 25 comments - 0 attachments