Here is a quick expriment with the cool #InDesign PlugIn #typepad by @haltypefaces
Playiing with #variablefonts is getting really fun this way!
Check the PlugIn!
👉 PlugIn: TypePad
https://type.hanli.eu/typepad-manual/
👉 Typeface: Salou
/retail-fonts/salou/
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Free trial fonts are available on my website now! Just visit and download here:
/retail-fonts/free-trial-fonts/
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This is the last one, in this little series of just for fun font facts. Thanks for watching!
The term ‘font’ comes from the French word fondre (meaning ‘to melt’), as characters were made by melting a lead mix poured into matrices to produce types in batches. A font was a set of lead pieces for a specific typeface in a particular style and size.
➡ Source & a good website explaining many typographic expressions: /en/entry/font
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➡ #fontfact is set in the font Salou: /retail-fonts/salou/
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Sometimes font issues aren't just for a small circle of nerds or experts; sometimes they can be the deciding factor in court, deciding whether someone is guilty or not guilty! There have already been a handful of cases where typographic expertise has helped convict the culprits, thanks to the Font Detective!
For me, this is definitely the coolest job involving fonts.
➡ Thomas Phinney is the only Font Detective I know: /
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➡ #fontfact is set in the font Salou: /retail-fonts/salou/
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The #fontfacts are fun. And now that we are close to the end of this little series of fun facts we of course have to deal with humor too! And yes, we can do better than ‘I shot the serif’ ...
Here is a little list to smile about:
➡ Pinterest: /thatloudasianbitch/font-jokes/
➡ Practical typography humor: /typographic-humor.html
➡ Zach Braff tells typography jokes: /watch?v=EyATdKwj-S0&t=12s
➡ From the community: https://typography.guru/forums/topic/68525-typography-jokes/
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➡ #fontfacts is fun and it is set in the font Salou: /retail-fonts/salou/
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Since 1737, the French printer Pierre Simon Fournier spoke of the ‘point typographique’. Since then, various systems for specifying sizes have existed: e.g. the Didot point system and the American point system.
Today, the international standard unit name is the (typographic) point, which measures exactly 1⁄72 inch, i.e., 0.0138 inch or 0.3527 mm.
➡ More abot the typogaphic units on Wikipedia: /wiki/Typographic_unit
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➡ #fontfact is set in the font Salou: /retail-fonts/salou/
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Bitstream created a library of "classic" fonts (usually under different names for trademark reasons) in digital form. For example, Times Ten was released as Dutch 801, Akzidenz-Grotesk as Gothic 725,... Antique Olive came out as Incised 901, and is still available today on MyFonts.
The company was heavily criticized for its strategy of offering cheap digitized versions of existing fonts that it hadn't designed itself. This wasn't technically illegal.
The numbers at the end of the font names are a small unsolved mystery that I have not been able to solve yet…
➡ Source Wikipedia: /wiki/Bitstream_Inc.
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➡ #fontfact is set in the font Salou, which is also influenced by Antique Olive: /retail-fonts/salou/
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