Typography Weekly #64

Jim Parkinson tells us about reviving Electra for Bruce Kennett’s W. A. Dwiggins biography.

“Pressio is a study in doing things backward. We began with the weight that’s usually drawn last: the ultra-compressed black.”

“Detecting fraud via fonts isn’t as sexy as sleuthing art forgery; it often involves tedious measurements with digital calipers, examinations under loupes and microscopes, charts that track the slight differences between two versions of the Times Roman face, or evidence that a particular form of office printer didn’t exist at the document’s dated execution.”

“When a commercial font ends up where it shouldn’t — for instance on a huge, freely searchable database of code — it’ll most certainly break the terms of the license, and once downloaded from there, it becomes a pirated font.”

Watch over 50 talks from ATypI 2017 Montreal on YouTube.

New work from the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.

The Guardian: “one of the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics has been traced to the Bakhshali manuscript, dating from the 3rd or 4th century”