The amateurization of type design. Odd examples in the slideshow though...where's Chank, Joe Gillespie, or Ray Larabie? They're the real amateurs.
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• Aug 31 2004 • 2:13PM
Yeah no kidding, I pretty much learned how to make fonts with this article by Chank. He seemed like one of the gods of the font-scene in the late nineties. I want to try my hand at making a real typeface at some point, but they're time consuming. I'd spend 48 hours making a font and it would be lucky to have most of the characters.
• Aug 31 2004 • 3:29PM
Seriously. How "amateur" is a list of fonts available from font companies?
• Aug 31 2004 • 4:12PM
Yeah, it's a weird list. You probably shouldn't be considered an amateur if your profile contains the line "while he was studying typography at Yale under the master digital-type designer Matthew Carter". Bit of a white flag there.
• Sep 03 2004 • 7:00AM
Plazm perhaps is a better fit for the article because they're much, much smaller and more amateurish than House or H&F-J. But yeah, if you want to talk about how ANYONE can make a font, why bust out Licko, who's one of the elder stateswomen of the font scene? "Font making is for everyone, look, here's Matthew Carter and Hermann Zapf!"
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Alex Foley • Aug 31 2004 • 1:56PM
Ray Larabie is perhaps the most visible of online fontologists (that's what they should be called :P). I am truly disappointed that they weren't included here.