Florian @hardwig

Typographer, type writer, researcher. Editor @FontsInUse. Graphic designer at Kaune & Hardwig, Berlin. He/him. Find me here: https://t.co/4I2SqQC3YZ florian.hardwig.com Berlin, Europe Joined November 2009

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Fonts In Use @FontsInUse

4 years ago

The Fonts In Use team unanimously condemns the assault on safety, security, and basic humanity continually displayed by Twitter’s new ownership. We loved it here, but can no longer justify engaging in this platform. Find us at typo.social/@FontsInUse and fontsinuse.com.

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4 years ago

@typostammtisch Vermutlich lose basiert auf der Breiten fetten Information: fontsinuse.com/typefaces/3172… flickr.com/photos/peter-g…

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4 years ago

@LeoVazquezC @Mikeashworth12 Agreed! Stempel didn’t trust the appeal of these idiosyncracies, and offered a second series with conventional (Futura-like) terminals. Guildford Sans is equivalent to series I, but w/ the two-story ‘a’. It didn’t help: the design wasn’t a big hit, neither in Germany nor the UK.

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4 years ago

@LeoVazquezC @Mikeashworth12 The name is English. The design came from Frankfurt, though, just like Futura (Kabel is from nearby Offenbach): Guildford Sans is Caslon’s name for Stempel’s Elegant-Grotesk: fontsinuse.com/typefaces/3217…

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4 years ago

@EvaSilvertant Luc had to permanently stop his type documentation work in May 2022 after a bicycle accident. luc.devroye.org/about.html

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4 years ago

@hhpapazian @EvaSilvertant Yes. It’s nicely explained by Legros & Grant, 1916: archive.org/details/typogr…

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4 years ago

@hhpapazian @EvaSilvertant Right, kerned sorts are another option.

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4 years ago

@EvaSilvertant I don’t know. A cliché seems likely.

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4 years ago

@EvaSilvertant What I’m saying is, to achieve such tightly spaced and even overlapping pairs in metal type, one would need to make ligatures. And that’s unlikely, not only because ligatures for such pairs are uncommon, but also because the visual result isn’t really convincing.

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4 years ago

@MilesNewlyn @gabrowitsch @AdobeCC From the Adobe Blog: “[D]id you know that you can also use the fonts in other software like Microsoft Office and Keynote? They’ll appear in your font menus just like the fonts you have installed on your computer” blog.adobe.com/en/publish/202…

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4 years ago

@JonathanHoefler @TiroTypeworks @EvaSilvertant That article you’re thinking of is probably @BaldCondensed’s about finding the “Most Totally Awesome Fleischmann Digitisation™”, incl. DTL’s, Mercury, Farnham, Fenway, and Eudald: typographer.org/2005_06_01_dig… Archived version with intact encoding: web.archive.org/web/2006120111…

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4 years ago

@SignalType @realdougwilson FYI: mastodon.social/@Gargron/10835…

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4 years ago

@EvaSilvertant Halyard Display is a contemporary design with some similar details in the italics.

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Elizabeth Goodspeed @domesticetch

4 years ago

A little belated, but I'm so honored to have been asked to write the release essay for @frerejones’s incredible new type family Community Gothic that came out earlier this week! Also excited to use the typefaces in some design projects myself soon too... frerejones.com/blog/grit-and-…

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4 years ago

@riccard0 @FontsInUse @Font_ID Right – it’s difficult to say. Maybe there was yet another alternate for A. Or maybe a sort from Semplicità ended up in the wrong case.