[Openfontlibrary] design service
Alexandre Prokoudine
alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 04:55:36 PST 2008
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> 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
Publish all 200 Mbytes on wiki? :-)
>>> 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? :-)
Not in English ;-) And the more correct version is "early Adobe's
Type1 fonts", not just Helvetica.
Alexandre
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