The Evolution of Typographic Species

On the design of MM Sans and MM Serif.

“About typography, paleontology, evolutionism, fixism, interpolation and miscegenation.
With Georges Cuvier, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Charles Darwin, and FontLab Studio.”

Thomas Huot-Marchand, 7 May 2020

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