Marcin WicharyI think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
Airplanista 🇺🇦@mwichary Interesting topic, fonts. When I was a working graphic designer (about 30 yrs), my Mac's Fontbook had 1,000+ fonts, and in production I rarely ventured outside about a 30 font comfort zone. I used to covet my fonts, studied them, altered them in Adobe Illustrator (like when designing logos), but over the years, most of my collection only collected digital dust.
I go back to when people bought fonts. Yeah, I know, a dinosaur, but one that is retired after a pretty satisfying career.
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I remember the early days of DTP. A local business would get a laser printer (and a small computer with the right software and plenty of fonts) and soon they were publishing promotional NEWSLETTERS with each KEYWORD on the page in a DIFFERENT FONT, like what I'm doing HERE with my cAPS lOCK.
Actual designers would have advised them to not use so many typefaces.
I remember the early days of DTP. A local business would get a laser printer (and a small computer with the right software and plenty of fonts) and soon they were publishing promotional NEWSLETTERS with each KEYWORD on the page in a DIFFERENT FONT, like what I'm doing HERE with my cAPS lOCK.
Actual designers would have advised them to not use so many typefaces.