Seriously: what are the odds that anyone is going to ever actually need to use the /partialdiff in the Black weight of my current project? And yet… here I am fussing over every point and handle as if my reputation depended upon it! 🫤 🙄
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Pet peeve: animated font marketing gifs that move too quickly to really get a decent look at the damn typeface!
(Which seems to be most of them; or maybe my eyes are just getting too old. 🤷♂️)
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Autumn blueberry may be my favorite shade of red.
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“PRINTERS Should equip themselves with all these Typecuts and let the Committees and Candidates know they have them ready for use on Cards and Letters, Announcements and other Campaign material.”
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While rummaging through the back sections of a Barnhardt Brothers & Spindler catalog (ca. 1925), I stumbled across this page of campaign typecuts and found it mildly amusing.
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Leftover habits from Postscript/MacRoman days still compel me to fill the old 'apple' character slot with a decorative element — what some at Font Bureau used to call a “party character”.
But maybe it’s time for me to rethink this …?
I’m curious: How do fellow type designers these days think about the 'apple' (U+F8FF ) character?
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Today is Matthew Carter’s birthday. In recognition of which, I thought I’d share a recent treasure.
Back in July, I got an enigmatic email from Matthew requesting my mailing address. Shortly thereafter, I received a copy of his limited-edition pamphlet recreating the inscriptions of Ratdolt’s ‘Romanae Vetustatis Fragmenta’ — as he said, “for no better reason than my fondness for Roman capitals on a page.”
It’s a pleasure to see him indulging such whims. 😊
Needless to say, I felt honored.
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We’ve had our solar panels for well over a year now, so the novelty has certainly worn off. But I still get a kick out of days when we’re able to realize a nearly perfect solar curve. (We type designers do like a good curve, after all.)
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Stumbled across this today: Turns out Mac’s native Calculator app has a “programmer” mode (command-3), which takes hexadecimal input and will, among other things, identify the corresponding Unicode character. (!) Plenty of other [better] tools to do the same thing; but — how ’bout that? Go figure.
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The original fonts have been retired. Existing licensees of Whitman can get the Whitman Text upgrade at a discount until 9/13. If you didn’t get the email from TypeNetwork, message me.
(5/5)
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Plus:
• tabular figures & currency for both lining and oldstyle (duplexed across all weights)
• sups/numr/dnom/sinf figs for footnotes, fractions, chemical formulas, etc. (including valences [⁺⁻⁼₊₋₌] and period/comma/parens/brackets)
• sups/ordn/sinf versions of basic lowercase plus è
• various symbols: recycled paper ♾; sharp/flat/natural ♯♭♮; superior variants for standard reference marks *†‡§; true primes ′″
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Additions:
• extensive language expansion, of course; also {mark/mkmk}
• expanded set of f- and ff-ligs
• small caps now in all weights and styles
• additional case punctuation and all-small-caps punctuation
(3/5)
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Notable design changes:
• quotes & commas redrawn slightly larger
• question mark completely reconceived (I was never crazy about my original)
• several accents refined, and flattened uppercase/small-cap variants added
• feminine & masculine ordinals underlined and repositioned
• serifs strengthened slightly in Regular weight; contrast sharpened in heavier weights
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This flew largely under the radar: Last month, 21 years almost to the day, I released a long overdue update/expansion of the original Whitman fonts — the culmination of refinements, additions, and enhancements made over the past two decades, many for my own professional use. Since text reflow cannot be entirely ruled out in standing matter, the new fonts have been rechristened Whitman Text. These are now published under my own shingle at Type Network:
https://store.typenetwork.com/foundry/kentlew/fonts/whitman-text
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For those who might have wondered about my complete absence from the type scene for quite a while …
I spent the last five years, first managing the design, construction, and start-up of a municipal fiber-optic network to bring broadband to my small rural town (pop. <500) and then serving as chief elected official. Not technically a “mayor”, but functionally similar. Both of which consumed nearly all my time & attention.
My term ended in May, so now I’m finally getting back to my type career. 😊
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