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Font
Veer has exquisite typefaces.
My favorite among those shown on the first page is Savoir Faire. Clean, crisp, elegant, tolerably illegible at times.
When I first got into desktop publishing – a latecomer to it, I’m sure, in 1986/87, which I subsequently left in 1990 - I went through a brief affair with Palatino along with the rest [...]
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Unfinished Gaudi
A writer on New York Moleskinecity mentions Broken Angel as one of the treasures of Brooklyn. The owner of this building, a “self-taught” architect and painter, has added some interesting and intriguing quirks to the facade and interior. However, Gothamist.com goes too far and calls it a tenement version of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia.
Please.
Sagrada Familia is a [...]
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Veer has exquisite typefaces.
My favorite among those shown on the first page is “Savoir Faire.” Clean, crisp, elegant, eminently readable.
I first worked with fonts — I have always been a dilettante with them — on a Macintosh at John Wiley & Sons, my first job out of college. After working first as an editorial aide [...]
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