[Openfontlibrary] design service

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Thu Nov 6 04:53:43 PST 2008


2008/11/6 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
>
>> Is there anything specific you are looking for?  At what
>> sort of resolution?  I've considered adding a lot of typeface
>> scans to www.fromoldbooks.org but not sure who would benefit.
>
> I happen to have scans from a 1930s or so Soviet Russia font album.
> Interested? :-)

If Liam isn't, please publish them on the web and add a note to the
wiki at http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_Design#I_want_to_revive_a_historic_design

>> Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work;
>> Microsoft spent over a million US dollars on Arial, I've heard.
>
> Other people report that Adobe's helvetica was digitized by kids of
> Adobe's founders :-)

LOL

Got a reference for that? :-)


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